ere

From Middle English ere, from Old English ǣr. (adverb, conjunction, & preposition), from Proto-Germanic *airiz, comparative of Proto-Germanic *airi (“early”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyeri (“day, morning”) (compare Avestan 𐬀𐬫𐬀𐬭‎ (ayar, “day”), Gk. ἠέριος (ēérios, “at daybreak”), see also era). The adverb erstwhile retains the Old English superlative ǣrest (“earliest”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eer (“before”), Dutch eer (“before, sooner than”), German eher (“earlier”).

• yer [15th-16th c.]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛə/, /ɛː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• Homophones: air, heir, Ayr

ere (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) At an earlier time. [10th-17th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John I:

     Thys is he of whome I spake, he that commeth after me, was before me be cause he was yer than I.

ere

1. (poetic, archaic) Before; sooner than.
   • Bible, John iv. 49

     Sir, come down ere my child die.

   • Shakespeare

     Stirring ere the break of day.

   • Dryden

     Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ere.

• erst
• erstwhile
• ere long

• IPA^(key): /ɪə(ɹ)/

ere (plural eres)

1. Obsolete form of ear.
   • 1533, R. Saltwood:

     As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.

• -eer, EER, REE, Ree, e'er, ree

ere

1. also

ere

1. water

• Darrell T. Tryon, Comparative Austronesian Dictionary (1995), page 26

ere

1. (obsolete) present plural of være

• Plural verbs were made optional in 1900.

• er

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• Rhymes: -eːrə

ere

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of eer

ere

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of eren

• eer, ree

Possibly the same root as in erk. Compare Finnish hereä, Livvi herei and Veps hered.

ere (genitive ereda, partitive eredat)

1. bright

ér +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrɛ]
• Hyphenation: ere

ere

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of ér

ere f

1. plural of era

• ree

ere

1. vocative singular of erus

From Old Dutch ēra, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

êre f

1. glory, fame
2. honour, respect
3. worship
4. decency, etiquette

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: eer
  • Afrikaans: eer
• Limburgish: ieër

êre

1. Alternative form of êer

See the etymology of the main entry.

êre

1. feminine genitive and dative singular of êen

• “ere (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “ere (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English hiere.

ere

1. Alternative form of hire

ere

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

From Old English ēare, from Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

• eare, eere, yere, here, eyr, ire

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːr(ə)/

ere (plural eren or eres)

1. ear (organ that receives sound)
2. The auricle; the outside of the ear.
3. The ear canal; the portion of the ear which is not apparent by sight.
4. The power of hearing; the ability to detect sound.
5. The level of attention given to someone speaking.
6. A handle or grip.
7. A portion of the heart with an earlike shape.

• mousere

• English: ear
  • Tok Pisin: ia
• Scots: ear

• “ēre (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-12.

From Old English ēar.

ere

1. Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)

From Old English here.

ere

1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

ere

1. Alternative form of here (“their”)

• “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

From Old English earon.

ere

1. Alternative form of aren

ere

1. woman

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

from *ais- (“to honour, respect, revere”)

ēre f

1. honour

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

ere

1. water

• The Structural Violence of Resouce Extraction in the Purari Delta, in Tropical Forests Of Oceania: Anthropological Perspectives
• Comparative wordlists (Karl James Franklin, ‎Summer Institute of Linguistics) (1975)
• Transnewguinea.org, citing G. E. MacDonald, The Teberan Language Family, pages 111-121, in The Linguistic Situation in the Gulf District and Adjacent Area, Papua New Guinea (editor K. J. Franklin) (1973)

ere

1. village

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾe/

ere f (plural eres)

1. Name of the letter r.

• erre (represents both r and rr)

• “ere” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

ere

1. dative singular of er

From Old High German ēra

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ēre f

1. homage, honor
2. fame