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Low German
Etymology
From Middle Low German vü̂r, from Old Saxon fiur, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from Proto-Germanic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Compare German Low German Füür, German Feuer, Dutch vuur, West Frisian fjoer, English fire, Danish fyr.
Noun
füür n
- (Brazilian Pomerian) fire
Hai sit dicht am füür.- He is sitting next to the fire.
Further reading
- Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 224