Noun: steer
| Singular | steer |
| Plural | steers |
Sample Sentences
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I tried to give you the steer, but I guess I didn't get it over. Everybody knew it but you. [1939, Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties:]
Nouns inflected like steer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English steeren, steren, stiren, sturen, steoren, from Old English stēoran, stīeran, stȳran (“to steer; guide a vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiurijan (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną (“to steer”).
2. The noun is from Middle English steere, stere (“rudder”), steor, from Old English stēor, stȳr (“steering; guidance; direction”). Compare Dutch stuur, German Steuer, Icelandic stýri. See: Old English Nouns '
stēoran', Middle English Nouns '
steere', Old English Nouns '
stēor', Dutch Nouns '
stuur', German Nouns '
Steuer', Icelandic Nouns '
stýri'.
Verbs referencing "steer"
Ancient Greek Nouns
ταῦρος, Spanish Nouns
estribor, Danish Nouns
tyr, Gothic Nouns
𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌿𐍂.