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gierst.

millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food)

6 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/xiːrst/
  1. millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food)

    feminine · no-diminutive · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch heerse, from Proto-Germanic *hirsijô, potentially derived in turn from an unknown substrate language or, alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“feed, nourish”). Cognate with Limburgish hirs, Old Saxon hirsi, Plautdietsch Hieezh, Old High German hirsi (German Hirse), Alemannic German Hirse.

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