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English
Proper noun
Ehr
- The English name for a city in Rhine-Lahn-Kreis, Germany.
Anagrams
East Central German
Proper noun
Ehr m
- (Erzgebirgisch) a diminutive of the male given name Erich and Erhard
Further reading
2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:
German
Pronunciation
Noun
Ehr f (genitive Ehr, plural Ehren)
- (poetic, dialectal, otherwise archaic) Alternative form of Ehre
Declension
Pennsylvania German
Etymology 1
From Middle High German ēre, from Old High German ēra (“honour, fame, sense of honour”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.
Compare German Ehre, Dutch eer.
Noun
Ehr f (plural Ehre)
- honor
Etymology 2
Compare German Öhr.
Noun
Ehr n (plural Ehr)
- eye (of a needle)