Jersey
See also: jersey
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (“Geirr's”) + ey (“island”). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
- Hyphenation: Jer‧sey
Proper noun edit
Jersey
- A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
- 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN:
- The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force.
- A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
- An English earldom.
- (US, informal) New Jersey.
- A town in Georgia, United States.
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island
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cattle
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New Jersey
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Noun edit
Jersey (plural Jerseys)
- A cow of the Jersey breed.
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Further reading edit
- Jersey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Jersey cattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan edit
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Jersey m
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Jersey (genitive Jerseys)
- Jersey (island)
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Jersey f
- Jersey (island)
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Italian edit
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Jersey m
- Jersey (island)
- the letter J in the Italian spelling alphabet
- Synonym: Jesolo
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References edit
- ^ Jersey in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Jersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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Jersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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Jersey f
- Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)
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Jersey f
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Further reading edit
- “Jersey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014