biere

biere f

1. beer

Oberli, Marie-Louis (2006) Patois - Français : Le Djâsaie De Tchie Nos, Glossaire Patois des Franches-Montagnes‎^[1] (in French)

From Middle Dutch bier or Middle High German bier, both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą.

biere f (plural bieres)

1. beer (alcoholic drink)

• French: bière
  • → Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
  • → Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
  • → Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
  • → Sango: bîêre
  • → Vietnamese: bia

From Old French biere, bere, from Frankish *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô.

biere f (plural bieres)

1. bier (cart used to transport cadavers)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (biere, supplement)

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From Old Dutch *bior, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą. Alternatively, from Old High German bior, from the same Germanic source.

biere oblique singular, f (oblique plural bieres, nominative singular biere, nominative plural bieres)

1. beer (alcoholic drink)

• Middle French: biere
  • French: bière
    • → Abenaki: labial (from "la bière")
    • → Khmer: ប៊ីយេរ (biiyɛɛ)
    • → Lao: ເບຍ (bīa)
    • → Sango: bîêre
    • → Vietnamese: bia
• Norman: biéthe

Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *berō.

biere oblique singular, f (oblique plural bieres, nominative singular biere, nominative plural bieres)

1. bier (cart used to transport cadavers)
2. a casket for cadavers

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (biere, supplement)