eer

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See also: -eer and e'er

English

Pronunciation

Adverb

eer

  1. (poetic) Unpunctuated contraction of ever.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch eer, from Middle Dutch ere, from Old Dutch ēra, from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

eer (plural eers)

  1. honour

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: eer
  • Rhymes: -eːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch êre, from Old Dutch ēra, from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

eer f (uncountable)

  1. honour
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: eer
  • Negerhollands: eer

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch êer, from Old Dutch ēr, from Proto-West Germanic *airi, from Proto-Germanic *airiz.

Preposition

eer

  1. ere, before (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: eer

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch êer, from Old Dutch *ēr, from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos.

Noun

eer n (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) copper
  2. (obsolete) bronze
Derived terms

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

eer

  1. inflection of eren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اَكَرْ (ägär), from Persian اگر (agar). Compare Turkish eğer, Azerbaijani əgər.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

eer

  1. if
    eer isteersän sevilmää, sev
    If you want to be loved, love

Usage notes

  • Usually omitted during colloquial speech.

Further reading

  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 60
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 30

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Old High German iru, iro.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

eer

  1. stressed dative of sie.

Inflection

Hunsrik personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
Proclitic Enclitic str. unstr. str. unstr.
1st person singular ich

eich

-ich mich

meich

meer mer

m'r

2nd person singular
(informal) 		du

dau/Dau

-du, -de

-Dau, -De

dich

deich/Deich

deer der

d'r/D'r

3rd person singular (m.) er; där -er ihn en ihm em
3rd person singular (f.) sie; die -se sie / ihns se eer

ehr

re
3rd person singular (n.) es; das

et, 't

's es

et

-et, -'t

ihm em
1st person plural meer mer uns

uhs

2nd person plural deer

Ehr, Dehr

der eich

Auch

3rd person plural sie; die -se sie se denne

Further reading

Low German

Preposition

eer

  1. Alternative spelling of er

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ēr, from Proto-West Germanic *airi, from Proto-Germanic *airiz.

Pronunciation

Adverb

êer

  1. earlier, previously
  2. formerly
  3. first, beforehand

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Conjunction

êer

  1. ere, before

Descendants

Preposition

êer

  1. before

Descendants

Further reading

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