ér

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ér

Controversial origin

• From ér ("blood vessel").
• From Proto-Uralic *šerɜ (“creek”).

ér (plural erek)

1. rill

From Proto-Uralic *särä (“vein, root”). Cognates include Mansi та̄р (tār, “root”)

ér (plural erek)

1. (anatomy) blood vessel, vein
2. (botany) vein (a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle)

• eres
• erezet

• ér in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

Origin uncertain; perhaps from a Turkic language, compare Uyghuric är-, Chagatay ir-, Turkish er- (“reach”) verb forms. The second main meaning derives from the first, ér (“to reach”).

ér

1. (heading) to reach or extend until a point.
   1. (intransitive) to reach (a place), arrive, get somewhere (-ra/-re or -ra/-re or -hoz/-hez/-höz)

      Synonyms: odaér, elér, érkezik, megérkezik, jut, eljut

      • 1863, János Arany, Buda halála, canto 6:

        Értek vala éjszakára / Kur vizének a partjára; / Folyóvíznek partja mellett / Paripájok jól legelhet.

        They find themselves as daylight sinks / where Kur’s broad waters sweep and swell. / On meadows by the river-brinks / their weary steeds may pasture well.

   2. (intransitive) to touch something (-hoz/-hez/-höz or -ba/-be)

      A fa ága a vízhez ér. ― The branch of the tree touches the water.

      Synonyms: hozzáér, érint, megérint, érintkezik, nyúl, hozzányúl (the latter two can only apply to deliberate action)

   3. (intransitive) to reach, stretch, extend as far as something (-ig) (to be long or deep or high enough)

      A szekrény a falig ér. ― The wardrobe extends as far as the wall.

      A víz a derekamig ér. ― The water comes / rises up to my waist.

   4. (transitive) to hit, strike, afflict someone (of a disaster or sometimes luck)

      A szomszédomat baleset érte. ― My neighbor had / met with an accident.

   5. (transitive) to catch someone (to discover unexpectedly; to surprise)

      Synonym: rajtakap

      • 1974, Leo Tolstoy (author), László Németh (translator), Anna Karenina [Anna Karenina], Bucharest: Kriterion Könyvkiadó (1989), →ISBN, volume 1, part 1, chapter 1, page 7:

        Az történt vele ebben a pillanatban, ami az emberrel történni szokott, ha váratlanul igen szégyenletes dolgon érik. Arcát nem tudta a helyzethez szabni, amelybe bűne felfedésével a felesége előtt került.

        There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault.

   6. (transitive) to be able to use something (-val/-vel) meaningfully, to be of use to someone

      Synonyms: kezd, megy

      Mit érek húsz forinttal? ― What can I do with twenty forints? What use can twenty forints be to me?

2. (heading) to have some value or validity.
   1. (transitive) to be worth something

      Ez a cipő húszezer forintot ér. ― This pair of shoes is worth twenty thousand forints.

   2. to count, to be fair (to be legal according to the rules of a game)

      Synonyms: érvényes, szabályos

• This verb is a member of one of those (few) quasi-homonymous verb pairs that exist both with and without an -ik ending. All suffixed forms of these pairs are identical (sometimes they can even have derived forms that coincide), with the exception of their dictionary form (the third-person singular indicative present, with or without -ik), the transitive forms if one of them is transitive (if either, it is the one without -ik) as well as an optional first-person singular indicative present indefinite form of the -ik verb. However, the meaning of these pairs is often unrelated. Examples include bán–bánik, (el)vesz–(el)veszik, ér–érik, nyúl–nyúlik, (meg)bíz–(meg)bízik and tör–törik (the latter two pairs with related meanings; tör[ik] along with their verbal prefixes). Therefore one may well need to check the context and the verb arguments to ascertain which member of the verb pair is relevant.

(For the first main meaning):

• érdekel
• érint
• érintkezés
• érintkezik
• érkezik
• ért

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

• földet ér
• lassan járj, tovább érsz
• tetten ér
• véget ér

(For the second main meaning):

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

• aranyat ér

• érik

• ér in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

ér (Zhuyin ㄦˊ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 侕
2. Pinyin transcription of 儿
3. Pinyin transcription of 児
4. Pinyin transcription of 兒
5. Pinyin transcription of 唲
6. Pinyin transcription of 栭
7. Pinyin transcription of 檽
8. Pinyin transcription of 洏
9. Pinyin transcription of 濠
10. Pinyin transcription of 而
11. Pinyin transcription of 耏
12. Pinyin transcription of 聏
13. Pinyin transcription of 胹
14. Pinyin transcription of 腘
15. Pinyin transcription of 臋
16. Pinyin transcription of 荋
17. Pinyin transcription of 袻
18. Pinyin transcription of 輀
19. Pinyin transcription of 轜
20. Pinyin transcription of 陑
21. Pinyin transcription of 隭
22. Pinyin transcription of 髵
23. Pinyin transcription of 鮞
24. Pinyin transcription of 鲕
25. Pinyin transcription of 鴯
26. Pinyin transcription of 鸸

• þér
• ír

ér

1. nom. pl. to ‘þú’, ye

• Westrobothnian: gje, je, ji

From Old Norse ęr, from Proto-Germanic *arwaz.

• IPA^(key): [éːɾ]

  Rhymes: -éːr

ér n (definite singular ére, plural ér, definite plural éra)

1. scar

• eru (“scarred”)