pouren
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from Old Northern French purer (“to sift (grain), pour out (water)”),[1][2] from Latin pūrō (“to purify”), from pūrus (“pure”). Compare Middle Dutch afpuren (“to pour off, drain”).
Verb
pouren
- (transitive) to pour (something), to decant
- (transitive, figuratively) to send forth (something); to express
- (transitive, reflexive, figuratively) to devote oneself to (something)
Descendants
- English: pour
Etymology 2
Unknown.[3] Perhaps from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”).[4]
Verb
pouren
- (intransitive) to study intently, to pore over
Descendants
- English: pore
References
- ^ “pour, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “pǒuren, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “pore, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “pǒuren, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
