Old English · noun
bera
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- weak
- IPA
- /ˈbe.rɑ/
- Syllables
- ˈbe · rɑ (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- bear
Meaning
-
bear
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”). Cognate with Old Frisian *bera, Old Saxon bero, Old Dutch *bero, Old High German bero. The oblique stem *bern- gave Old Norse bjǫrn.
Descendants
bear
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bera · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence · Attribution