beer – English noun declension

English noun forms of beer

Noun: beer
Singularbeer
Pluralbeers

Sample Sentences

  • Beer is brewed all over the world.
  • “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
  • Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]” [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • I bought a few beers from the shop for the party.
  • Can I buy you a beer?
  • I'd like two beers and a glass of white wine.
  • Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe.
  • I haven't tried this beer before.
  • I had two beers yesterday at the restaurant.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *beuzą
3. Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ
4. Old English bēor
5. Middle English ber
6. English beer
7. From Middle English ber, bere, from Old English bēor (“beer”) (Oxford OED notes: "rare, except in poetry"), from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”) (putatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewsóm), meaning “brewer's yeast”.
8. However, also see the "beer" entry on EtymOnline (q.v.), which links a connection to monastic Vulgar Latin *biber (“a drink, beverage”), from Latin bibere (“to drink”). Samuel Johnson in his famous 18th-century A Dictionary of the English Language guessed it was from (unattested) Welsh *bîr; he distinguished it in his time from ale — the ancient usual word — by beer being older-aged and/or smaller.
9. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bjoor (“beer”), West Frisian bier (“beer”), Dutch bier (“beer”), German Low German Beer (“beer”), German Bier (“beer”), dialectal Swedish bjor, bör (“beer”), Norwegian Nynorsk bjor (“beer”), Faroese bjór (“beer”), Icelandic bjór (“beer”). See: Middle English Nouns 'ber', Old English Nouns 'bēor', Latin Nouns 'bibere', Dutch Nouns 'bier', German Nouns 'Bier', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'bjor', Faroese Nouns 'bjór', Icelandic Nouns 'bjór'.

Verbs referencing "beer"

German Nouns Bier, Zulu Nouns ubhiye, Zulu Nouns ubhiya.