Old English · noun
lareow
Normalised lārēow
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /ˈlɑːrˌe͜oːw/
- Syllables
- ˈlɑːr · ˌe͜oːw (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- teacher
Meaning
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teacher
Sē lārēow sċeal bēon eallum mannum efnþrōwiende.
A teacher should be sympathetic to everyone.
late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From lār (“teaching; doctrine”) + *ēow, a word or suffix of uncertain origin and meaning, yet apparently found also in Old Saxon lērio, lēreo (“teacher, prophet”). Some authorities believe the second element to be a corruption of Old English þēow (“servant; minister”), which shows up in later forms of the word, e.g. Old English lārþēaw (for *lārþēow), Middle English lorthew, etc., yet this might be assimilation in retrospect caused by confusion or folk-etymology.
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