Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Amerysk Word of the Day: Dyr

Dyr (plural: dyras)

English: animal
German: Tier
Dutch: dier
Swedish: djur
Danish: dyr
Norwegian: dyr
Yiddish: chaye
French: animal
Spanish: animal
Esperanto: besto

Dyr is pronounced just like the English word 'deer'. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon
dēor which means 'animal'. 

Myn dyras.
Æ dyr.
Tha dyras.

English:
My animals.
An animal.
The animals.

German:
Meine Tiere.
Ein Tier.
Die Tiere. 

Esperanto:
Miaj bestoj.
Besto.
La bestoj.


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