starr
See also: Starr
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin starrum, from Hebrew שְׁטָר (šĕṭār).
Noun
[edit]starr (plural starrs or starra)
- (historical) A receipt given by Jews on payment of debt.
- 1846, Moses Margoliouth, The Jews in Great Britain:
- It is well known that, before the banishment of the Jews under Edward I., their contracts and obligations were denominated in our ancient records starra, or starrs, from a corruption of the Hebrew word shetar, a covenant.
- 1893, Joseph Jacobs, The Jews of Angevin England[1]:
- In the Treasury nil, and bv quittance which the said Gervase and Hugo his son have of the said debt by a Starr which the said Hugo produced at the Treasury before the Barons £90.
- 1932, The Publications of the Selden Society, volume 49, page 1:
- Huntingdonshirr. son of master Moss the Jew, by his charter, he came before the justices, etc., and proffered certain starrs of acquittance of the said debt which the aforesaid Jacob had made to the aforesaid Nicholas his father, as he says, at the time when the same Jacob had the free administration of his goods.
- 2013, Sarah Rees Jones, Christians and Jews in Angevin England:
- Later in the same year 'when Burnell had retired from court' he personally acknowledged twenty-two Jewish starra whilst he was staying at Beaulieu.
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[edit]German
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German star, from Old High German *star, from Proto-West Germanic *star.
Adjective
[edit]starr (strong nominative masculine singular starrer, comparative starrer, superlative am starrsten)
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of starr
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist starr | sie ist starr | es ist starr | sie sind starr | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | starrer | starre | starres | starre |
genitive | starren | starrer | starren | starrer | |
dative | starrem | starrer | starrem | starren | |
accusative | starren | starre | starres | starre | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der starre | die starre | das starre | die starren |
genitive | des starren | der starren | des starren | der starren | |
dative | dem starren | der starren | dem starren | den starren | |
accusative | den starren | die starre | das starre | die starren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein starrer | eine starre | ein starres | (keine) starren |
genitive | eines starren | einer starren | eines starren | (keiner) starren | |
dative | einem starren | einer starren | einem starren | (keinen) starren | |
accusative | einen starren | eine starre | ein starres | (keine) starren |
Comparative forms of starr
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist starrer | sie ist starrer | es ist starrer | sie sind starrer | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | starrerer | starrere | starreres | starrere |
genitive | starreren | starrerer | starreren | starrerer | |
dative | starrerem | starrerer | starrerem | starreren | |
accusative | starreren | starrere | starreres | starrere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der starrere | die starrere | das starrere | die starreren |
genitive | des starreren | der starreren | des starreren | der starreren | |
dative | dem starreren | der starreren | dem starreren | den starreren | |
accusative | den starreren | die starrere | das starrere | die starreren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein starrerer | eine starrere | ein starreres | (keine) starreren |
genitive | eines starreren | einer starreren | eines starreren | (keiner) starreren | |
dative | einem starreren | einer starreren | einem starreren | (keinen) starreren | |
accusative | einen starreren | eine starrere | ein starreres | (keine) starreren |
Superlative forms of starr
Alternative forms
[edit]- storr (archaic or regional)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the lemma.
Verb
[edit]starr
Further reading
[edit]Irish
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[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]starr f (genitive singular starra, nominative plural starrtha)
- protrusion (anything that protrudes), prominence (bulge), projection (something which projects)
- (anatomy, biology) process (outgrowth of tissue or cell; structure that arises above a surface.)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “starr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English starre, steorre, from Old English steorra, from Proto-West Germanic *sterrō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]starr (plural starrès)
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69
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