heuer

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German hiure, from Old High German hiuro, hiuru, from hiu (“in this”) +‎ jāru (“year”).[1] Compare German heute from Old High German hiu tagu ("this day").

Pronunciation

Adverb

heuer

  1. (Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein, otherwise dialectal) this year
    Synonym: (the general form) dieses Jahr
    Coordinate term: fert

Usage notes

  • The word is never used in northern and central Germany. It may even—at least by less educated speakers—be misinterpreted as a synonym of heute (“today”). It does however occasionally mean heutigentags (“nowadays”) or heute (“nowadays”), for example:
    • 1654, Salomons von Golaw Deutscher Sinn-Getichte Drey Tausend, Breslau, p. 210, nr. 71 Heutige Welt-Kunst:
      [...]
      Wer sich desen wil befleissen
      Kan Politisch heuer heissen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Verb

heuer

  1. inflection of heuern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “heuer”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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