Ger in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Ger

You can make 6 words from 'ger' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'ger'
• 2 letters words from 'ger'

3 letters words from 'ger'

ERG 4	GER 4
REG 4

2 letters words from 'ger'

ER 2

RE 2

Definitions and meaning of ger

ger

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger)/ᠭᠡᠷ (ger).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

ger (plural gers)

1. A yurt.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 133:

     The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּר‎ (ger).

Noun

ger (plural gerim)

1. A male convert to Judaism.

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gaura. Compare Lithuanian gauras (“hair, down, tuft of hair”), Latvian gauri (“pubic hair”) and Middle Irish gúaire (“hair”).

Noun

ger m

1. squirrel (furry)

Related terms

• ketër

References

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English caru (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːr/

Noun

ger m (plural gerioù)

1. word
   • 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 202.

     Skrijal a rae Loeiz o tistagan ar ger [...] 'Louis screamed in pronouncing the word'.

Derived terms

• geriadur ("dictionary")

Inflection

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Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English ċearu (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡɛːr]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡeːr]

Noun

ger m (plural geryow)

1. word
2. saying
3. report

Derived terms

• gerlyver ("dictionary")

Mutation

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃeːɹ]
• Homophone: gerð

Etymology 1

Verb

ger

1. third-person singular present of gera

he, she, it does, makes

1. imperative singular of gera

do! make!

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Norse [Term?].

Noun

ger f (genitive singular gerar, uncountable)

1. yeast

Declension

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cɛːr/
• Rhymes: -ɛːr

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish gær, from Old Norse gerð, from Proto-Germanic *garwidō.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. yeast

Declension

Synonyms

• (yeast): jöstur

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gør, from Proto-Germanic *garwiją or *gerwą.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. rotting things (as feed)
2. flock, swarm (of carrion birds, flies, etc.)

Declension

Etymology 3

From Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gǫrr, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

Adjective

ger (not comparable)

1. ready, fully prepared

Inflection

Etymology 4

From Old Norse gerr, cognate with Old High German ger (“greedy”).

Adjective

ger (comparative gerari, superlative gerastur)

1. greedy, gluttonous

Inflection

Etymology 5

From Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gørr, from Proto-Germanic *garwiz, comparative of the adverb corresponding to ger (3).

Adverb

ger (comparative form; superlative gerst)

1. better, more thoroughly

References

Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• ġēar

Etymology

Variant of ġēar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeːr/

Noun

ġēr n (nominative plural ġēr)

1. year
2. the runic character ᛄ (/j/)

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Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”).

Noun

gēr m

1. spear

   Synonym: azgēr

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• azgēr

Descendants

• Lombardic: ger
  • →⇒ Italian: gherone
• Middle High German: gēr
  • German: Ger

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *ger, from Proto-Germanic *geraz.

Adjective

ger

1. greedy

Alternative forms

• giri

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

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Old Saxon

Etymology

Variant of jār.

Noun

ger n

1. year

Declension

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʒer]

Noun

ger n (plural geruri)

1. frost (cold weather that causes frost to form)
2. frigidness, frosty weather

Declension

Derived terms

• gerar

Related terms

• degera

See also

• frig
• brumă

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeːr/

Verb

ger

1. present tense of ge., contracted from the archaic giver

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Welsh

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛr/

Preposition

ger

1. next to, near

   Synonym: ar bwys

2. beside

   Synonym: wrth

Derived terms

• gerbron (“before, in the presence of”)
• gerllaw (“nearby”)

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Westrobothnian

Adjective

ger

1. Alternative spelling of gjer

Source: wiktionary.org

• in Mongolia, another name for a yurt, a felt tent.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)