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noun
verb
Meanings
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noun
learning or lore; (dialect) to teach or learn
The old shepherd passed his lear of the hills to his son.
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Etymology
From Old English lār ('learning, lore, teaching'), related to leornian ('to learn'), from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *leis- ('track, furrow').
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