different between ayre vs eyre

English

Etymology 1

From an unattested Norn word, from Old Norse eyrr. Compare Icelandic eyri, Norwegian øyr.

Noun

ayre (plural ayres)

1. A narrow bar of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a sandbank.

Etymology 2

Noun

ayre (plural ayres)

1. Archaic spelling of air.
   • 1856, Notes and Queries, page 425

     It is precisely to this—not destruction, but dissolution—(for dissolve is the poet's word) this melting into thin ayre, of the world itself, that Tooke maintains the word rack, i. e. reek, to be most- appropriate. And I think he was right in so doing.

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Raye, Reay, Yare, aery, eyra, y'are, yare, year

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish ayre, from Latin ?er, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r).

Noun

ayre m (Latin spelling)

1. wind

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ?er, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?aj.?e]

Noun

ayre m (plural ayres)

1. air
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f.

Descendants

• Ladino: ayre
• Spanish: aire

English

Etymology

From Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /???/, /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)

Noun

eyre (plural eyres)

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

Anagrams

• Eyer, Reye, eery, eyer, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

Middle English

Noun

eyre

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