oer

Borrowed from Low German Uur, from Proto-Germanic *ōra, *ūra- (“ferriferous sand”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)wūr-. However, compare Irish úir (“soil, earth”) and Proto-Germanic *auraz (“wet earth, sand, mud”).

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oer n (uncountable)

1. ferrous ground, sand clotted by iron(III) oxide, bog iron ore

• ijzeroer

• oerbank

• Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012

oer

1. Alternative form of ore (“ore”)

From Proto-Celtic *ougros (compare Old Irish úar), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewǵ- (compare Old Armenian ոյծ (oyc)).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /oːɨ̯r/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɔi̯r/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /oːr/
• Rhymes: -oːɨ̯r

oer (feminine singular oer, plural oerion, equative oered, comparative oerach, superlative oeraf)

1. cold

   Mae hi’n oer tu allan.

   It’s cold outside.

• iasoer (“chilly”)
• oeri (“to cool, to get cold”)
• oerfel (“cold”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “oer”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Old Frisian over, from Proto-Germanic *uber.

• IPA^(key): /uə̯r/

oer

1. over, across

   oer lân of oer see

   over land or over sea

2. about, concerning

   ynformaasje oer rinnende saken

   information concerning current events

3. on, upon

• “oer (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

oer

1. Alternative form of ower
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     At skelpearès an slaugheardhès mye leeigh aar oer vill.

     That the piglings and pigs may laugh their overfill.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 60