deor – Old English noun declension

Noun: deor
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	dēor
Plural	dēor

Genitive

Singular	dēores
Plural	dēora

Dative

Singular	dēore
Plural	dēorum

Accusative

Singular	dēor
Plural	dēor

Sample Sentences

Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā rēðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas. (Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping reptiles, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.) [c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:]

Nouns inflected like deor

deornet, deorcynn, deornett, deaþbedd, deor,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm.
2. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian diār, Old Saxon dior, Old Dutch dior, dier, Old High German tior, Old Norse dýr, Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃 (dius). Further cognates include Lithuanian dvė̃sti and Russian душа́ (dušá). See: Old Norse Nouns 'dýr', Gothic Nouns '𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃'.