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Is ger a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ger is a Scrabble US word. The word ger is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is ger a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ger is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

G2E1R1

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3 letters words from 'ger'

ERG 4GER 4
REG 4 

2 letters words from 'ger'

ER 2RE 2

All 3 letters words made out of ger

ger egr gre rge erg reg

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word ger. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in ger.

Definitions and meaning of ger

ger

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛə(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

  • EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg

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

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

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

Mutation

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

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.

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/)

Old High German

Etymology

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

Noun

gēr m

  1. spear

Descendants

  • Middle High German: gēr
    • German: Ger
  • → Italian: gherone

Old Saxon

Etymology

Variant of jār.

Noun

ger n

  1. year

Declension


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

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jeːr/

Verb

ger

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

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh gor (“over, next to”), from Old Welsh guor, from Proto-Brythonic *wor, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor (“over, next to”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér. Cognate with Irish for.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɛr/

Preposition

ger

  1. next to
    Synonym: ar bwys

Derived terms

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

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)
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