Thier

See also: thier

German

Noun

Thier n (genitive Thieres or Thiers, plural Thiere, diminutive Thierchen n or Thierlein n)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Tier which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
    • 1813, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Einleitungsvorlesungen in die Wissenschaftslehre (edited by Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Leipzig, 1834), page 13:
      Wie, nach ihnen, die Pflanze nicht anders kann, denn wachsen, das Thier nicht anders, denn sich bewegen, []
      How, following them, the plant can’t but grow, the animal can’t but move []

Declension

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