kers
Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dialectal Dutch kers (“candle”), variant of kaars, from Middle Dutch kerse. The Dutch development -er- → -aar- before a dental consonant is absent in a number of Afrikaans words (compare lantern, perd, stert, werd).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]kers (plural kerse, diminutive kersie)
Usage notes
[edit]- The diminutive kersie is the same as the noun kersie (“cherry”); it is avoided unless the context is clear.
Dutch
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch kerse, ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.
Noun
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Red cherries
kers f (plural kersen, diminutive kersje n)
- A cherry tree, one of certain trees of the genus Prunus, especially the subgenus Cerasus.
- A cherry, a stone fruit of a cherry tree.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (cherry fruit): steenfruit, steenvrucht
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Afrikaans: kersie (from the diminutive form)
- Negerhollands: kirsch
- → Caribbean Hindustani: kers
- → Malay: kersen (from the plural form)
- → Sranan Tongo: kersi
- → West Frisian: kers
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch kerse, kersse, from Old Dutch *kersa, *kressa, from Proto-West Germanic *karsjā, *krassjā, from Proto-Germanic *krasjǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gras-. Cognates include Sanskrit ग्रसति (grasati); related to English cress, German Kresse.
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Noun
[edit]kers f (uncountable)
- cress: a term used of various plants, chiefly but not solely of the family Brassicaceae (crucifers), particularly of the genus Rorippa
Derived terms
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Noun
[edit]kers
Indonesian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]kèrs (first-person possessive kersku, second-person possessive kersmu, third-person possessive kersnya)
Synonyms
[edit]West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]kers c (plural kersen, diminutive kerske)
Alternative forms
[edit]- kjers (Wood)
Further reading
[edit]- “kers (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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