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English
Etymology
eye + -er
Noun
eyer (plural eyers)
- One who eyes someone or something.
- 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,
- The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.
2010, Robert Coover, Noir, New York: Overlook Duckworth, page 97:You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
eyer (plural eyeres)
- Alternative form of eyrer (“female swan”)
Etymology 2
Adverb
eyer
- Alternative form of er (“early”)
Etymology 3
Noun
eyer (uncountable)
- Alternative form of air (“air”)
Etymology 4
Noun
eyer (plural eyeres)
- Alternative form of heir (“heir”)
Etymology 5
Noun
eyer
- Alternative form of eyre
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایر or اگر (eyer), from Proto-Turkic *ēder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈjæɾ/
- Hyphenation: e‧yer
Noun
eyer (definite accusative eyeri, plural eyerler)
- saddle (seat on an animal)
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Derived terms
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 292
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 215
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “اَگَر”, in قاموس تركی (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 144
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “eḏer”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 63
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ẹ̆dŋe-r”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eyer”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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