Wt/sco/poor

Scots

Verb

1. (transitive) Tae cause tae flowe in a stream, as a liquid or onything flowin lik a liquid, either oot o a veshel or intae it.

Noon

1. (colloquial) A stream, or something lik a stream; especially a fluid o precipitation.

Inglis

Etymology

Frae Middle Inglis povre, povere, frae Old French (an Anglo-Norman) povre, poure (Modren French pauvre), frae Laitin pauper (Inglis pauper), frae Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), frae Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“smawness”). Cognate wi Old English fēawa (“little, few”). Displaced native Middle Inglis earm, arm (“poor”) (frae Old English earm; See arm), Middle Inglis wantsum, wantsome (“puir, needy”) (frae Old Norse vant (“deficiency, lack, want”), Middle Inglis unlede (“puir”) (frae Old English unlǣde, Middle Inglis unweli, unwely (“puir, unwalthy”) (frae Old English un- + weliġ (“well-tae-dae, prosperous, rich”).

Pronunciation

• (Australie) IPA^(key): /poː/
• (Received Pronunciation)
  • IPA^(key): /pʊə(ɹ)/, /pɔː(ɹ)/

  • Audio (RP): [pɵː]

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• (US)
  • IPA^(key): /pʊɹ/, /pɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: pour, pore (wi the pour-poor merger)
• Homophone: paw (in some non-rhotic accents) (wi the pour-poor merger)

Adjective

poor (comparative Wt/sco/poorer, superlative Wt/sco/poorest)

1. puir in quality or walth

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Limburgish

Etymology

Frae Walloon porea.

Noun

poor m

1. leek

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Auld French

Noun

poor f (oblique plural Wt/sco/poors, nominative singular Wt/sco/poor, nominative plural Wt/sco/poors)

1. fear