Etymograph

English

spoorer

From spoor + -er.

Formed from spoor + -er

Proto-Indo-European *sperH- ‘to kick’

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Old Dutch *spor ‘track, trace’

Middle Dutch spor

Dutch spoor ‘track’

Afrikaans spoor

English spoor

Today it means

noun A hunter who tracks game by its spoor.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “spoorer”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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