err
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/, (rare) /ɛə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
- /ɜː(ɹ)/ Homophone: er
- /ɛə(ɹ)/ Homophones: air, are (unit of measurement), ayr, Ayr, e'er, ere, eyre, heir
Verb edit
err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)
- (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
- He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.
- 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation[1], page 7:
- Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
- (intransitive) To sin.
- (archaic) to stray.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:make a mistake
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Etymology 2 edit
Interjection edit
err
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
According to Orel, Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).
Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).
Noun edit
err m
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Estonian edit
Noun edit
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Faroese edit
Noun edit
err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Declension edit
n9 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | err | errið | err | errini |
Accusative | err | errið | err | errini |
Dative | erri | errinum | errum | errunum |
Genitive | ers | ersins | erra | erranna |
See also edit
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
err
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | err | errek |
accusative | erret | erreket |
dative | errnek | erreknek |
instrumental | errel | errekkel |
causal-final | errért | errekért |
translative | erré | errekké |
terminative | errig | errekig |
essive-formal | errként | errekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | errben | errekben |
superessive | erren | erreken |
adessive | errnél | erreknél |
illative | errbe | errekbe |
sublative | erre | errekre |
allative | errhez | errekhez |
elative | errből | errekből |
delative | erről | errekről |
ablative | errtől | errektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
erré | erreké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
erréi | errekéi |
Possessive forms of err | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | errem | errjeim |
2nd person sing. | erred | errjeid |
3rd person sing. | errje | errjei |
1st person plural | errünk | errjeink |
2nd person plural | erretek | errjeitek |
3rd person plural | errjük | errjeik |
See also edit
- (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading edit
- r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
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Võro edit
Noun edit
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ers-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
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- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)
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- English terms with homophones
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- Albanian nouns
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- et:Latin letter names
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛrː
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