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- spoor



[spoor 词源字典] - spoor: see spur
[spoor etymology, spoor origin, 英语词源] - spoor (n.)




- "track, trace," 1823, used originally by travelers in South Africa, from Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor, from Middle Dutch spor, cognate with Old English spor "footprint, track, trace," from Proto-Germanic *spur-am, from PIE *spere- "ankle" (see spurn).