different between gar vs snook

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gar, gare, gere, gore, from Old English g?r (“spear, dart, javelin, shaft, arrow, weapon, arms”), from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear, pike, javelin”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ayso- (“pointed stick, spear”), from *??ey- (“to drive, move, fling”). Cognate with West Frisian gear, Dutch geer (“pointed weapon, spear”), German Ger (“spear”), Norwegian geir (“spear”), Icelandic geir (“spear”). Related to gore.

Alternative forms

• gore (dialectal)

Noun

gar (plural gars)

1. (obsolete) A spear.

Etymology 2

Clipping of garfish.

Noun

gar (plural gars)

1. (especially US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
2. (especially Britain, Ireland) A garfish, Belone belone.

Usage notes

• The European species was the original gar, and the North American gars were named after it, with other common names also shared between the two. In modern usage an attempt has been made to restrict "gar" to the North American fish and "garfish" to the European ones, but both names can be found for both types. Context can help: the North American gars are freshwater fish of a very primitive type, while the European gars are saltwater fish known for their green bones and their association with mackerel in folklore.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, gerva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijan?. Compare yare; but also Old Cornish gorra (“put, place, set”).

Verb

gar (third-person singular simple present gars, present participle garring, simple past and past participle gart)

1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). [14th-19th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:

     I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15:

     Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].

Anagrams

• ARG, Arg., Gra, RGA, Rag, arg, rag

Basque

Noun

gar inan

1. blaze

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *garr, from Proto-Celtic *garros.

Noun

gar f (plural garoù)

1. leg

Mutation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

gar

1. Soft mutation of kar.

Mutation

German

Etymology

From Middle High German gare (inflected garw-), from Old High German garo, from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

Cognate with Dutch gaar, archaic English yare (“keen, lively, eager”). Related with gerben.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?r/, [?a?], [?a???], [?a??]
• Rhymes: -a???, -a?

Adjective

gar (not comparable)

1. cooked, done (of food such as meat or vegetables: ready for consumption)

Declension

Derived terms

• garen

Adverb

gar

1. (with a negative) at all; even

   Synonym: überhaupt

   • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 25/2010, page 80:

2. (chiefly formal or literary) even; expressing a climax

   Synonyms: sogar, selbst, geradezu

3. (chiefly formal or literary, with zu) all

   Synonym: all, usually spelt allzu

4. (Austria, Switzerland, otherwise archaic, poetic) very; quite; really

   Synonyms: ganz, recht, sehr, ziemlich

Derived terms

• Garaus

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gar (“short; near”). See Middle Irish gerr (“short”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a??]

Adjective

gar (genitive singular masculine gair, genitive singular feminine gaire, plural gara, comparative gaire)

1. near
2. (of time) short
3. (literary) convenient; easy, likely
4. near, mean, stingy

Declension

Derived terms

• gar- (“near, close; approximate”)

Noun

gar m (genitive singular gair, nominative plural garanna)

1. nearness, proximity
2. convenience, service; turn, favor

Synonyms

• aice
• cóngar
• fogas

Derived terms

• i ngar

Declension

Mutation

References

• "gar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 gar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Latvian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Preposition

gar (with accusative)

1. along

Middle English

Noun

gar

1. Alternative form of gare

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??oys- (“pointed stick, spear”).

Cognate with Old Frisian g?r, Old Saxon g?r, Old High German g?r, Old Norse geirr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r/

Noun

g?r m (nominative plural g?ras)

1. (poetic) spear, arrow, dart

Declension

Derived terms

• G?rdene
• g?rl?ac
• nafog?r

Descendants

• Middle English: gar, gare, gere, gore
  • English: gore (dialectal), gar
  • ? Middle English: garfysche
    • English: garfish
    • Scots: gairfish

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar/

Noun

gar m inan

1. (colloquial) Augmentative of garnek.

Declension

Further reading

• gar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, g?rva, gørva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijan?. Compare English yare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar/, /??r/

Verb

gar (simple past and past participle gart or gert)

1. to make (somebody or something do something)

Related terms

• gare
• gair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Pronoun

gar

1. us (direct object)

Usage notes

• Adds the prefix n- to the following word if it begins with a vowel:

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish gorim, from Proto-Celtic *g?renso-, from Proto-Indo-European *g??renso- (“warm”), from *g??er- (“warm, hot”); see also Old Irish grís (“heat (of the sun), fire, embers”), Sanskrit ????? (ghra?sa, “heat of the sun”), Latin formus (“warm”), Ancient Greek ?????? (thermós), English warm.

Verb

gar (past ghar, future garaidh, verbal noun garadh, past participle garte)

1. warm

Related terms

• gorm

References

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gare.

Noun

gar (definite accusative gar?, plural garlar)

1. station (railway)

Turkmen

Noun

gar (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. snow

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar/

Noun

gar

1. Soft mutation of car.

Mutation

West Tarangan

Noun

gar

1. water

Further reading

• Richard J. Nivens, A Lexical Phonology of West Tarangan, in Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku (1992, edited by Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig)
• Richard J. Nivens, Borrowing Versus Code-switching in West Tarangan (Indonesia) (2002)
• E. Wattimury, A. Haulussy, J. Pentry, Sintaksis bahasa Tarangan (1995), page 48

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -ó?r

Etymology 1

From Old Norse í gær, í gjár

Noun

gar

1. Yesterday (only used in the adverbial form i gar.)

   i gar-o mårjan / i går óm móran

   yesterday morning

   i gar-o äfta

   yesterday evening

Etymology 2

Noun

gar

1. Skin-furrow (about the grain of a hide.)
2. Growth rings in wood.

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• snoek

Pronunciation

• enPR: sno?ok, IPA^(key): /snu?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Etymology 1

Dutch snoek (“pike, Esox”)

Noun

snook (plural snooks)

1. A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.
   1. Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook.
2. Any of various other ray-finned fishes in several families.

Verb

snook (third-person singular simple present snooks, present participle snooking, simple past and past participle snooked)

1. To fish for snook.

Derived terms

• bay snook
• common snook

Etymology 2

From the 19th century. Unknown origin, possibly related to snoot or snout.

Noun

snook (plural snooks)

1. (Britain, derogatory, as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.

Derived terms

• cock a snook
• cocking of a snook
• snook-cocker
• snook-cocking

Verb

snook (third-person singular simple present snooks, present participle snooking, simple past and past participle snooked)

1. (obsolete) To sniff out.
2. (obsolete) To lurk; to lie in ambush.

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Snook”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Konos, nooks