gieren

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

gieren

  1. (nautical) to yaw

Inflection

Inflection of gieren (weak)
infinitive gieren
past singular gierde
past participle gegierd
infinitive gieren
gerund gieren n
verbal noun —
present tense past tense
1st person singular giergierde
2nd person sing. (jij) giertgierde
2nd person sing. (u) giertgierde
2nd person sing. (gij) giertgierde
3rd person singular giertgierde
plural gierengierden
subjunctive sing.1 gieregierde
subjunctive plur.1 gierengierden
imperative sing. gier
imperative plur.1 giert
participles gierendgegierd
1) Archaic.

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡiːʁən/, [ˈɡiːʁən], [ˈɡiː.ɐn]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German gīren (“to open one’s jaws, gape, scream”). Cognate with Dutch gieren (“to scream”). Related also with German Geier (“vulture”) and gähnen, English yawn. In standard German, the word has always been associated with unrelated Gier (“greed, lust”) and is typically regarded a derivative thereof.

Verb

gieren (third-person singular simple present giert, past tense gierte, past participle gegiert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (with nach) to desire greedily, to lust for
  2. (possibly dated) to open one’s jaws so as to snap

Etymology 2

From Dutch gieren, which is possibly the same word as that mentioned under etymology 1, with a semantic development “to scream, squeak” → “to make a repeated squeaking movement”. Alternatively from Dutch geren, also gieren (“to be askew”), from geer (“asymmetric piece of land”).

Verb

gieren (third-person singular simple present giert, past tense gierte, past participle gegiert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (nautical, aviation) to yaw

Conjugation

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