Ere
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ere¹
- /ɛə/ UK
- /ɛː/ UK
- /ɛɚ/ US
- /eː/ Australia
- /eə/ New Zealand
- /iə/
- /eɹ/ Scotland
- /ɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like air, Ayr, eyre, heir, are (“unit of measurement”), e'er (US), ear (cheer–chair merger), err (fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English er, from Old English ǣr (adverb, conjunction, and preposition), from Proto-West Germanic *airi, from Proto-Germanic *airiz, comparative of Proto-Germanic *airi (“early”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyeri (“day, morning”) (compare Avestan 𐬀𐬫𐬀𐬭 (ayar, “day”), Gk. ἠέριος (ēérios, “at daybreak”), see also era, Albanian herët (“early in the morning, at daybreak”) ). The adverb erstwhile retains the Old English superlative ǣrest (“earliest”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eer (“before”), Dutch eer (“before, sooner than”), German ehe (“before”).
adverb yer
- At an earlier time. Thys is he of whome I ſpake / he that cõmeth after me / was befoꝛe me be cauſe he was yer thẽ I.
preposition yer
- Before; sooner than. My ſelfe was ſtirring ere the breake of day, […]
conjunction yer
- before. Syꝛ, come downe ere my child die.
ere²
- /ɪə(ɹ)/
noun eres
- Obsolete form of ear.ear As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
ere³
- /eːɹə/
Where it comes from
Formed from is + there + a/an.
contraction 'ere
- A contraction of is, there, and the indefinite article. Mainly used in questions. 'Ere bit o' bacon in it, Kathleen?
Ere⁴
proper noun
- A language spoken on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
ERE⁵
noun EREs
- Initialism of extended regular expression.extended regular expression
