ier
Chuukese edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ier
Jamaican Creole edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
ier
- hair
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Revilieshan 9:8:
- Dem ier luk laik uman ier, an dem tiit komiin laik laiyan tiit.
- Their hair looks like women's hair, and their teeth like lion teeth.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ier (plural ier dem, quantified ier)
- year
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Ruoman 4:19:
- Iebriyam a did aalmuos wan onjrid ier uol, im did nuo se im suun ded an dat im waif kudn av no pikni, bot iivn wid aal a dat Iebriyam stil biliiv. No taim at aal im did biliiv se Gad naa go du we im pramis fi du.
- He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Ruoman 9:14:
- Kaaz wen Gad did mek di pramis tu Iebriyam im did se, “Bout da taim ya neks ier, mi wi kom bak an Siera wi av wan bwai pikni.
- For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
ier
- to hear
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Aks 28:22:
- Bot wi wuda laik fi ier wa yu tingk, kaaz wi nuo se piipl evriwe taak gens da gruup ya we yu bilang tu.”
- But we desire to hear from you what your views are, for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against.
Further reading edit
- ier at majstro.com
- ier at JamaicanPatwah.com
- ier on the Jamaican Creole Wikipedia.Wikipedia jam
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
ier
Descendants edit
Old High German edit
Pronoun edit
ier
References edit
- Lionel Armitage, An Introduction to the Study of Old High German, 1911, p. 200.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ѥръ (jerŭ).
Noun edit
ier n (plural ieruri)
- yer (two letters of the Cyrillic alphabet)
Declension edit
Romansch edit
Alternative forms edit
Adverb edit
ier
West Frisian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Frisian ēr, from Proto-Germanic *airiz.
Adverb edit
ier
Further reading edit
- “ier (IV)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Adjective edit
ier
Inflection edit
Inflection of ier | ||||
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uninflected | ier | |||
inflected | iere | |||
comparative | earder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | ier | earder | it earst it earste | |
indefinite | c. sing. | iere | eardere | earste |
n. sing. | ier | earder | earste | |
plural | iere | eardere | earste | |
definite | iere | eardere | earste | |
partitive | iers | earders | — |
Further reading edit
- “ier (IV)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Frisian *ēr, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz.
Noun edit
ier c (plural ieren, diminutive ierke)
- ear (of corn)
Further reading edit
- “ier (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011