yere

From ye analogous to your<you.

• Strong form: IPA^(key): /jiəɹ/, IPA^(key): /iəɹ/; Weak form: IPA^(key): /jɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

yere (possessive)

1. (Ireland) your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye
   • 2001, Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Scene 8:

     What I want ye to remember, as the bullets come out through yere foreheads, is […]

   • 2012 Kerry O'Shea Edinburgh’s Fringe festival thinks The Rubberbandits are English IrishCentral 27 July 2012:

     The Rubberbandits took to their Twitter (@Rubberbandits) on Tuesday in the wake of the Fringe fest’s apparent typo saying that, “@edfringe As much as we'd love to swear allegiance to Lizzie. Could ye change our country of origin from "England" to Ireland on yere site?” (sic)

   • 2012 July 28, Christy O'Connor, “The first great rivalry of the 21st century”, in Irish Independent:

     "I've been listening to yere s**** there all day about how great ye are," he told them. "Who the hell do ye think ye are with yere two All-Irelands and one ambush?"

Especially in the south and west of Ireland. The yod-dropping pronunciation is more dialectal.

yere (plural yeres)

1. Obsolete spelling of year

• Eyer, Eyre, Reye, eery, eyer, eyre, yeer

yere

1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

yere

1. Alternative form of yeer (“year”)

yere

1. inflection of yerar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From English hear.

yere

1. To hear

yere

1. dative singular of yer

• jèrè (Ào)

Probably from Edo yee (“to remember”), it is being replaced by rántí among younger speakers

• IPA^(key): /jè.ɾè/

yèrè

1. (chiefly CY and SEY) to remember

   Synonyms: rántí, níran

   Mo ti yèrè sí báyìí! ― I have remembered it now!

2. (chiefly CY and SEY, transitive) to remind

   Synonyms: yèlérè, rán létí

• ùyèrè (“remembrance”)
• yèlérè (“to remind”)

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