yere

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See also: ȝere, y'ere, and ye're

English

Etymology 1

From ye analogous to your<you.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

yere (possessive)

  1. (Ireland) your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye
    • 2001, Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Scene 8:
      What I want ye to remember, as the bullets come out through yere foreheads, is […]
    • 2012 Kerry O'Shea Edinburgh’s Fringe festival thinks The Rubberbandits are English IrishCentral 27 July 2012:
      The Rubberbandits took to their Twitter (@Rubberbandits) on Tuesday in the wake of the Fringe fest’s apparent typo saying that, “@edfringe As much as we'd love to swear allegiance to Lizzie. Could ye change our country of origin from "England" to Ireland on yere site?” (sic)
    • 2012 July 28, Christy O'Connor, “The first great rivalry of the 21st century”, in Irish Independent:
      "I've been listening to yere s**** there all day about how great ye are," he told them. "Who the hell do ye think ye are with yere two All-Irelands and one ambush?"
Usage notes

Especially in the south and west of Ireland. The yod-dropping pronunciation is more dialectal.

Etymology 2

Noun

yere (plural yeres)

  1. Obsolete spelling of year.

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

yere

  1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

Etymology 2

Noun

yere

  1. Alternative form of yeer (“year”)

Spanish

Verb

yere

  1. inflection of yerar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English hear.

Verb

yere

  1. To hear
    • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎, New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:
      Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’
      [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']
      Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’

Turkish

Noun

yere

  1. dative singular of yer

Yoruba

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from Edo yee (“to remember”), it is being replaced by rántí among younger speakers

Pronunciation

Verb

yèrè

  1. (chiefly CY and SEY) to remember
    Synonyms: rántí, níran
    Mo ti yèrè sí báyìí! ― I have remembered it now!
  2. (chiefly CY and SEY, transitive) to remind
    Synonyms: yèlérè, rán létí

Derived terms

References

  • Adetugbọ, Abidoun. The Yoruba language in Western Nigeria: Its major dialect areas , 1967
  • Ogen, Olukoya. The Akoko-Ikale: A Revision of Colonial Historiography on the Construction of Ethnic Identity in Southeastern Yorubaland , 2014
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