err

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɜː/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɛr/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /øː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /eː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ɛː/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophone: (all non-US pronunciations, /ɝ/ US pronunciation:) er
• Homophones: (/ɛɚ/ US pronunciation, all fair–fur merger pronunciations:) air, are (“unit of measurement”), ayr, Ayr, e'er, ere, eyre, heir

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

1. (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.

   He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.

   • 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation‎, page 7:

     Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.

2. (intransitive) To sin.
3. (archaic) to stray.

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

err

1. Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).

   Err... what did you just say?

According to Orel, Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).

Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos, but the phonological development required seems implausible.

err m

1. dark, darkness

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• terr

• errem
• irë
• errësirë

err (genitive , partitive )

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: err
• Rhymes: -ɛrː

err

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

• r in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ɛrː/

  Rhymes: -ɛrː

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

err (genitive , partitive )

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.