Jersey

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English

Jersey cattle (2)

Etymology

From Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse , compound of Geirs (Geirr's) +‎ ey (island). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.

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Proper noun

Jersey

  1. A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
    • 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN:
      The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force.
  2. A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
  3. An English earldom.
  4. (US, informal) New Jersey.
  5. A town in Georgia, United States.

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Noun

Jersey (plural Jerseys)

  1. A cow of the Jersey breed.

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Catalan

Proper noun

Jersey m

  1. Jersey

Danish

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Wikipedia da

Etymology

Borrowed from English Jersey.

Proper noun

Jersey (genitive Jerseys)

  1. Jersey (island)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɛʁ.zɛ/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Jersey f

  1. Jersey (island)

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Italian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jersey m

  1. Jersey (island)
  2. the letter J in the Italian spelling alphabet
    Synonym: Jesolo

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References

  1. ^ Jersey in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Proper noun

Jersey

  1. Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Proper noun

Jersey

  1. Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Jersey f

  1. Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)

Spanish

Proper noun

Jersey f

  1. Jersey

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