spir

From Old Danish spir, spiræ, from Old Norse spíra (“reed; stalk; thin tree-shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *spīrǭ (“peak; point; tip; stalk”)

spir n (singular definite spiret, plural indefinite spir)

1. (architecture) a spire
2. (dated) a sceptre

   Synonym: scepter

• kirkespir
• kobberspir

• “spir” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “spir” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

spir m (definite singular spiren, indefinite plural spir or spirer, definite plural spirene)

1. a point (on an antler)

spir n (definite singular spiret, indefinite plural spir, definite plural spira or spirene)

1. (architecture) a spire

• “spir” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

spir m (definite singular spiren, indefinite plural spirar, definite plural spirane)

1. point? (as above)

spir n (definite singular spiret, indefinite plural spir, definite plural spira)

1. (architecture) a spire

• “spir” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /spiːr/
• Rhymes: -iːr

spīr ?

1. spire (stalk of a plant)

• English: spire

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “spír”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

spir m (feminine singular spira, masculine plural spirs, feminine plural spiras)

1. (Sutsilvan) pure

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pur
• (Puter, Vallader) pür