Spur

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See also: spur, špur, and șpur

English

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Etymology

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English surname, variant of Spurr. Compare the noun spur.

Proper noun

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Spur (plural Spurs)

  1. An occupational surname from Middle English

Synonyms

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Noun

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Spur (plural Spurs)

  1. (soccer) someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Anagrams

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German spur, spor (usually n, also rarely m and f), from Old High German spor, *spur, from Proto-Germanic *spurą n. Cognate to Dutch spoor, whence (through Afrikaans) English spoor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃpuːr/, [ʃpu(ː)ɐ̯]
  • Rhymes: -uːɐ̯
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Noun

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Spur f (genitive Spur, plural Spuren)

  1. trace (rest of something that indicates its former presence; (by extension) any small amount)
  2. trail, track, spoor (path of signs leading somewhere, also e.g. through scent)
    • 1995, “Du riechst so gut”, performed by Rammstein:
      Die Spur ist frisch und auf die Brücke
      Tropft dein Schweiß, dein warmes Blut
      Ich seh' dich nicht
      Ich riech' dich nur ich spüre dich
      Ein Raubtier, das vor Hunger schreit
      Wittere ich dich meilenweit
      The trail is fresh and on the bridge
      Your sweat drips, your warm blood
      I don't see you
      I smell you I only sense you
      A predator that screams of hunger
      I smell you from miles away
  3. lead, clue (evidence pointing to a solution)
  4. lane (of a street, road)
  5. (music) track
  6. (mathematics) trace (sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix)

Declension

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Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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adjectives
compound nouns

Further reading

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  • Spur” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Spur” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Spur” in Duden online
  • Spur on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

Luxembourgish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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Spur f (plural Spuren)

  1. Alternative spelling of Spuer