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Definitions and meaning of er

er

Etymology

Mimetic (sound of hesitation)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɜː/
Used in non-rhotic dialects. Compare uh.

Interjection

Said when hesitating in speech.
- 2012, Linda Miller, Desire and Destiny:
  If he—er—disappears—well, it seems to me that we'd both benefit.
- 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Mona), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch:

Verb

er (third-person singular simple present ers, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

(informal) To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er.
He ummed and erred his way through the presentation.

Anagrams

're, RE, Re, Ré, r.e., re, re-

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /æːr/

Noun

er (plural erre or ers, diminutive erretjie)

The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German er, from Proto-Germanic *iz. Cognate with German er.

Pronoun

er m

(personal) he; it

Declension

Breton

Contraction

Contraction of e ur (“in a(n)”).
Contraction of e ar (“in the”).

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

èar (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German ër, from Old High German er, from Proto-West Germanic *iʀ (“he, it”), from Proto-Germanic *iz (“he, she, it, they”). Cognate with German er.

Pronoun

(Luserna) he, it

Inflection

References

“er” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Cornish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [eːɹ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *eriros (“eagle”) (compare Breton erer, Welsh eryr, Old Irish *irar), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird”).

Noun

er m (plural eryon or eres)

eagle

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

er m (plural erys)

heir

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Soft mutation of ger.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

every

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɛr]

Noun

er n

The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish ær, Proto-Germanic *izum, *izud, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”). The infinitive of the verb (være) is from a different PIE root; the present tense is suppletive.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛr/, [ɛɐ̯], [ɛɒ̯̽], but often elided in spontaneous speech.

Verb

present of være

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛr/, /ər/, /dər/

Etymology 1

Weak form of der, the unstressed form of daar ("there")

Adverb

there (unspecific to distance)
(with a preposition) it; him, her, them.
Ik heb ermee gewerkt.
I have worked with it/them.

Je kunt er de bergen boven zien.
You can see the mountains above it/them.

Usage notes

Er is an unstressed variety of hier and daar, used when it is not needed to emphasize the specific location relative to the speaker.
With a preposition, er is used instead of hem, haar, het, ze to create a pronominal adverb. See also Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs.

Descendants

Petjo: d'r

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch iro, genitive of the personal pronoun (3rd person plural).

Adverb

(partitive pronoun) of them, of those (often not translated in English)
Mijn broer heeft drie kinderen en ik heb er twee.
My brother has three children and I have two. (literally: two of those)

Ik zie er geen meer.
I don't see any more (of them).

Synonyms

ervan

Derived terms

See Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs

Related terms

daar
hier
waar

Anagrams

East Damar

Noun

water

References

Taber, M. (1993). Toward a better understanding of the indigenous languages of southwestern Maluku. Oceanic Linguistics. 32:2. pp. 389-441. Cited in: "East Damar" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eːɹ/

Verb

third-person singular indicative present of at vera

Conjugation

German

Etymology

From Middle High German er, from Old High German er, from Proto-West Germanic *iʀ, from Proto-Germanic *iz. In northern Old High German there also existed forms with initial h-, namely hē, her, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, whence Central Franconian hä and (from the accusative) Luxembourgish hien. Compare English he. The unusual spelling ih- in the forms ihm, ihn is not related to this. It was introduced in early modern German to distinguish these forms from im, in (when *iem, *ien could have been read as *jem, *jen).

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /eːr/, [ʔeːɐ̯], [ʔɛɐ̯]

Rhymes: -eːɐ̯
Homophone: Ehr

(colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /ɐ/

Pronoun

(personal) he.
(personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
(personal, archaic) Alternative spelling of Er (you (polite))
- (Can we date this quote?), Clemens Brentano, Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl (edited). In: 1835, F. W. Gubitz (editor), Jahrbuch des Nützlichen und Unterhaltenden für 1835, p. 171:
  Da fuhr die Alte überraſcht auf und ſprach: Lieber Herr, gehe er doch nach Haus und bete er fein und lege er ſich ſchlafen.

Declension

In contemporary German, the genitive forms of personal pronouns are restricted to formal style and are infrequent even then. They may be used
- for the genitive object still found in a handful of verbs: Ich erbarmte mich seiner. – "I had mercy on him". (Colloquially one would either use the dative case, or a prepositional object, or replace the verb with another.)
- after the preposition statt ("instead of, in place of"): Ich kam statt seiner in die Mannschaft. – I joined the team in his place. (This sounds antiquated, for which reason an seiner Statt or an seiner Stelle is preferable.)
Older forms/spellings include:
- jm (dative; 16th century), jn (accusative; 16th century) – distinguished from im (“in the, into the”) and in (“in, into”)
- ihme (dative)

Derived terms

hatter (hat er; colloquial)

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

ëyer (Wiesemann spelling system)

Etymology

From Old High German er, from Proto-Germanic *iz. Displaced the northern Old High German forms with h-, e.g. hē, her (see he).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛɐ/

Pronoun

Inflection

Icelandic

Verb

first-person singular indicative present of vera
Ég er skemmtilegur.
I am fun (masculine)

Hver er ég?
Who am I?
third-person singular indicative present of vera
Veit einhver hvar pabbi minn er?
Does anybody know where my dad is?

Hver er hann?
Who is he?

Pronoun

(relative) which
Maður er sá, er Jón heitir.
There is a man who is named John.

Konan, er hann var að tala við.
The woman to whom he was talking.

Þetta er borgin, er hann kom frá.
This is the city from which he originated.

Bærinn, er hún ætlar til.
The town to which she's heading.
(archaic) in relations with a demonstrative pronoun (this, that, these) or personal pronoun (I, we, they), which represents the genitive of a relative pronoun.
Það er sú bók, er menn þekkja eigi höfund hennar.
There is a book whose author people don't know.

Conjunction

(with an "indexical"; ábendingarorð) of a place, of a time
- Judges 2:19
  En er dómarinn andaðist, breyttu þeir að nýju verr en feður þeirra, með því að elta aðra guði til þess að þjóna þeim og falla fram fyrir þeim. Þeir létu eigi af gjörðum sínum né þrjóskubreytni sinni.
  But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
Þar er ég kom.
There whence I came.

Þá er myndin var búin.
When the movie was finished.

Derived terms

þá er þegar

References

er in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Japanese

Alternative forms

ler(ラー) (-rā)

Etymology

From English -er, forming novel pseudo-Anglicisms.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [a̠ː]

Suffix

er(アー) • (-ā)

(slang) Suffix used for people, especially fans.

Derived terms

Related terms

ist(イスト) (-isuto)

Kembra

Noun

water

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *hēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”) (whence also Ancient Greek χήρ (khḗr, “hedgehog”)), a root noun from *ǵʰer- (“to be excited, be bristly”), whence also Ancient Greek χοῖρος (khoîros, “young pig”) and Albanian derr (“pig”) from *ǵʰór-yos.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /eːr/, [eːr]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /er/, [ɛr]

Noun

ēr m (genitive ēris); third declension

hedgehog

Usage notes

There is some uncertainty as to the exact forms of this word, especially regarding whether the lemma form of this was ēr or ēris, as the forms attested in literature could point to either option. Another form, irim (acc. sing.; found in Plautus, Capt. 184), seems to be a spelling variant.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

ēricius (“hedgehog; picket”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /er/, [ɛr]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /er/, [ɛr]

Noun

er f (indeclinable)

The name of the letter R.

Usage notes

Multiple Latin names for the letter R, r have been suggested. The most common is er or a syllabic r, although there is some evidence which also supports, as names for the letter, rē, rrr, ər, rə, and even (in the fourth- or fifth-century first Antinoë papyrus, which gives Greek transliterations of the Latin names of the Roman alphabet’s letters) ιρρε (irrhe).

Coordinate terms

(Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

References

ēr in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ēr in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), especially pages 30–31, 42–44, and 63

Latvian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɛɾ]

Noun

er m (invariable)

The Latvian name of the Latin script letter R/r.

Low German

Pronoun

Alternative spelling of ehr

Mambae

Noun

water

References

Mambai Language Manual: Ainaro Dialect (2001)

Mandarin

Romanization

Nonstandard spelling of ér.
Nonstandard spelling of ěr.
Nonstandard spelling of èr.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish for.

Preposition

on
onto
during
for

Inflection

Pronoun

third-person singular of er
on him/it

Derived terms

ersyn (emphatic)

Middle Dutch

Adverb

unstressed form of dāer

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)

Pronoun

Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)

Etymology 3

Noun

Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)

Etymology 4

Determiner

Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 5

From Old English ǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *airi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛːr/

Adverb

early
earlier
formerly
rather

Derived terms

erly

Descendants

English: ere
Scots: er
Yola: ear

References

“ēr, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German ër, from Old High German er, from Proto-West Germanic *iʀ (“he, it”), from Proto-Germanic *iz (“he, she, it, they”). Cognate with German er.

Pronoun

he, it

Inflection

References

“er” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /æːɾ/, /æɾ/

Verb

present of være (=to be)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /æː(r)/, /eː(r)/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

present tense of vera and vere
is, are, am (present of to be)

References

“vera” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
“er på engelsk”, in DinOrdbok, Nynorsk-engelsk oversettelse‎^[3], accessed 2018-10-15

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *airi, from Proto-Germanic *airiz.

Preposition

ēr

before, earlier than

Descendants

Middle Dutch: êer
- Dutch: eer
- Limburgish: ieër

Conjunction

ēr

ere, afore

Descendants

Middle Dutch: êer
- Dutch: eer
- Limburgish: ieër

Adverb

ēr

previously, in an earlier period, in a bygone time
earlier, before a certain time or period

Descendants

Middle Dutch: êer

Old Frisian

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *airi, from Proto-Germanic *airiz. Cognates include Old English ǣr, Old Saxon ēr and Old Dutch ēr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈeːr/, [ˈɛːr]

Adverb

ēr

earlier, previously

Preposition

ēr (+ dative)

(of time) before

Descendants

Saterland Frisian: eer
West Frisian: ear't

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈeːr/, [ˈɛːr]

Noun

ēr f

Alternative form of ēre

References

Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *airi, from Proto-Germanic *airiz, whence also Old English ær.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eːr/

Adjective

ēr

early

Adverb

ēr

ere, before
formerly

Conjunction

ēr

before, until

Preposition

ēr (+ dative)

before

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *aiz, akin to Old English ār, Old Norse eir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eːr/

Noun

ēr n

ore
brass

Descendants

Middle High German: er
- Alemannic German: Eer
  - ⇒ Alemannic German: eerig
⇒ Old High German: ērīn
- Middle High German: ērīn
  - German: ehern

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *iz (“he”), akin to Gothic 𐌹𐍃 (is, “he”), Latin is (“he”).

Alternative forms

her (northern)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /er/

Pronoun

Inflection

Descendants

Middle High German: ër
- Alemannic German:
  Low Alemannic:
  Alsatian: ar, er, ër
  
  Badisch: er
  
  High Alemannic: er, är
  Bernese: är
  
  Lucerne: aer
  
  Northeastern: ar
  
  Walser: är
- Swabian: er, ear
  Swabian Jura: ear
- Bavarian: er
  - Cimbrian: èar, er, ar
  - Mòcheno: er
- Central Franconian:
  Moselle Franconian: er
  - Hunsrik: er, ëyer
- East Central German:
  High Prussian: er
  
  Silesian German:
  Lower Silesian German: a
  
  Upper Silesian German: a
  
  North Moravian: ar
  
  Thuringian: er
  Central Thuringian: er
  
  West Thuringian: aa
  
  Upper Saxon: är
  Meißnisch: är
  
  Osterländisch: är
  
  Erzgebirgisch: aorr
  
  Lusatian: ar
  
  South Marchian:
  Berlinerisch: er/ea
- German: er
- East Franconian: er, ea
  Unterfränkisch: ar
  
  Hohenlohisch: er
- Rhine Franconian:
  Upper Hessian: er
  
  Lorraine Franconian: ér, éa
  
  Palatine German: er
  
  Pennsylvania German: er
- Yiddish: ער‎ (er)

References

Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Old Norse

Alternative forms

es, -s

Etymology 1

From earlier es, from Proto-Germanic *iz (“he; 3rd person personal pronoun”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌹𐍃 (is), Old High German ēr (German er).

Pronoun

who, which, that
- verse 76 of the Hávamál (1996 translation by Carolyne Larrington)

Conjunction

where
when

Descendants

Faroese: er
Icelandic: er
Westrobothnian: -es

Etymology 2

From earlier es, from Proto-Norse ᛁᛊᛏ (ist), from Proto-Germanic *isti, first/third-person singular indicative present of *wesaną. The final -s was replaced by -r due to analogy to the plural forms of the verb.

Verb

third-person singular indicative present of vera

Descendants

Icelandic: er
Faroese: er
Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: er
- Norwegian Nynorsk: er
Westrobothnian: jer, jär
Old Swedish: ær
- Swedish: är
Danish: er

References

er in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛːr/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *airi, whence also Old English ær.

Adjective

ēr

early

Declension

Adverb

ēr

before, ere
formerly

Conjunction

ēr

before

Preposition

ēr (+ dative)

before

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *aiz, whence also Old English ār.

Noun

ēr ?

copper, bronze
ore

Descendants

Middle Low German: ēr

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *airuz. Cognate with Old English ār, Old Norse árr, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿𐍃 (airus).

Noun

ēr m

messenger, herald

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛɐ̯/

Pronoun

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛr/

Noun

er f

genitive plural of era

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian -er, from Proto-West Germanic *iʀ. Cognates include West Frisian er and German er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ər/

Pronoun

unstressed form of hie (“he”)

References

Marron C. Fort (2015), “er”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scots

Verb

(South Scots) Second-person simple present form of ti be
(South Scots) Plural simple present form of ti be
(South Scots) First-person singular simple present form of an obscure form of ti be
A'm er so!

Usage notes

Used emphatically. See ir.

Swedish

Etymology

Contraction of earlier eder, from Old Norse yðr, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz, dative/accusative of *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eːr/

Pronoun

er c (neuter possessive only ert, plural era)

you (plural, object)
Synonym: (formal, archaic) eder
(possessive) your, yours; (speaking to more than one person, about one object)
Synonyms: (informal) eran, (formal, archaic) eder
(reflexive) reflexive of ni; compare yourselves

Usage notes

See ni for a note on its use as a courteous 2nd person singular.
Even though er (2) and its archaic form eder is the possessive pronoun, it does have a genitive form ers and eders, which is only used in expressions like ers majestät (your majesty) and ers höghet (your highness).

Declension

Anagrams

-re, re-

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ایر‎, ار‎, from Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄r (“early”). Related to Old Turkic [script needed] (er).

Adjective

(regionalism) early

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ار‎, from Proto-Turkic *ēr (“man”). Related to noun-forming suffix -er and Old Turkic 𐰼‎ (er).

Noun

er (definite accusative eri, plural erler)

brave
man, male
noble
conscript, private (soldier of the lowest rank of the army)
tribesman
warrior

Declension

Etymology 3

Verb

second-person singular imperative of ermek

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛr/

Etymology 1

Conjunction

although

Derived terms

er mwyn (“for the sake of; in order to”)
er gwaethaf (“despite”)
ers (“since”)

Etymology 2

Noun

er f (plural eriau)

The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Mutation

West Frisian

Pronoun

clitic form of hy used before the object or after the verb.

Source: wiktionary.org

used to express hesitation.
(source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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er

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Interjection

Verb

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

Alemannic German

Etymology

Pronoun

Declension

Breton

Contraction

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronoun

Inflection

References

Cornish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Noun

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adverb

Usage notes

Descendants

Etymology 2

Adverb

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Anagrams

East Damar

Noun

References

Faroese

Pronunciation

Verb

Conjugation

German

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

Etymology

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