different between ayre vs yare

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 1

From Middle English yare, ?are, from Old English ?earu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).

Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, gerr (“perfect”).

Alternative forms

• yar (for the nautical sense)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (archaic) Ready; prepared.
2. (Britain dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III scene iv^[1]:

     […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
4. (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.
   • c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry

     The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

Derived terms

• yarely

Translations

Adverb

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

1. (archaic) Yarely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene i^[2]:

     Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

Etymology 2

Noun

yare

1. Alternative form of yair

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, aery, ayre, eyra, year

Japanese

Romanization

yare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Tocharian B

Noun

yare

1. gravel