Tier.
animal (see usage notes below)
Meaning & usage
animal (see usage notes below)
A person who has a quality thought of as animalistic, such as ferocity, strength, hairiness, etc.
Wenn er getrunken hat, wird er zum Tier.
hind (female red deer)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German tier, from Old High German tior, from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm. Cognate to English deer.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.