speir, spear verb to ask, enquire: No’ a word did I speir wha the creature might be, la14-. etymology: Scots; Older Scots spyr ‘to ask’; spere ‘to find out’; Northern Middle English spir, sper; Old English spyriun; Old Norse spyrja; also collected by EMcC/PS; form speir attested by JS; form spear attested by SR |