stir
/stɜː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She stirred the pudding with a spoon."
- "He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom."
- "My minde is troubled, like a Fountaine stir'd, / And I my selfe see not the bottome of it."
- "Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?"
- "And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit’s inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?"
- "An Ate, stirring him to bloud and strife […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- Proto-Indo-European *(s)twr̥H-yé-ti? Proto-Germanic *sturjaną Proto-West Germanic *sturjan Old English styrian Middle English stiren English stir From Middle English stiren, sturien, steren, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-West Germanic *staurijan (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stɜː/
- British English: /stɜː/
Usage
Inflected Forms
stirs (present, singular)
stirring (participle, present)
stirred (participle, past)
stirred (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
stirred (first person, past)
stirrest (archaic, present)
stirred (past, second person)
stirredst (archaic, past)
stirreth (archaic, present)
stirred (past, singular)