jer
English
Noun
jer (plural jers)
- (linguistics) Ultra-short or reduced vowel in Proto- and Late Common Slavonic (or Slavic), then represented as ъ (back jer [ŭ]) or ь (front jer [ĭ]).
Anagrams
Chinese
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 追?”)
Danish
Etymology
Archaic eder, from Old Danish idher, edher, Old Norse yðr, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz, dative/accusative of *jūz (“you (all)”) (see I). Cognate of Norwegian Bokmål dere, Swedish er, English you and German euch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɛɐ̯/, [jɛɒ̯̽]
Gothic
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Danish jer, from older eder, from Old Danish idher, from Old East Norse iðʀ, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Cognate with Swedish eder, er, Norwegian Nynorsk øder, ør, and Icelandic yður.
Pronoun
- (rare or archaic) second person plural objective case – you, yourselves
Old Frisian
Etymology
from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”)
Inflection
Declension of jēr (neuter a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | jēr | jēr |
genitive | jēres | jēra |
dative | jēre | jērum, jērem |
accusative | jēr | jēr |
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɛr/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛr
- Syllabification: jer
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Russian ер (jer), from Old Church Slavonic ѥръ (jerŭ).
Declension
Etymology 2
Uncertain.[1]
Declension
References
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “jer”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From an earlier jere, from the neuter form of Proto-Slavic *jь že. Compare Slovene ker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jêr/
Conjunction
jȅr (Cyrillic spelling је̏р)
References
- “jer” in Hrvatski jezični portal