different between eagre vs eare

English

Etymology 1

See eager.

Adjective

eagre (comparative more eagre, superlative most eagre)

1. Obsolete form of eager.
   • 1614, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, Book III., Chapter VII., page #66:

     How?oeuer it were, the Lacedæmonians being no le??e wearied of the warre, than the Athenians were eagre to pur?ue it, the one obtained their ea?e, and the other the execution and honor which they de?ired : for all the Greekes (tho?e of Peloponme?us excepted) willingly ?ubiected them?elues to the commandment of the Athenians which was both beginning of their greatne??e in that pre?ent age, and of their ruine in the next ?ucceeding.

Etymology 2

Not attested in Middle English; either from Old English ?agor (“water, sea”) or Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”), however, both possibilities fail to show the phonological outcome one would expect.

Alternative forms

• aegir, eger, egre, eygre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e???(?)/, /?i???(?)/
• Rhymes: -e???(r), -i???(r)

Noun

eagre (plural eagres)

1. a tidal bore

Translations

Synonyms

• tidal bore, bore

References

• “eagre”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Eager, aeger, agree, eager, geare, æger

English

Noun

eare (plural eares)

1. Archaic spelling of ear.

Anagrams

• aere

Latin

Verb

e?re

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of e?

Middle English

Noun

eare

1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

Old English

Etymology

From the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ows-. Cognate with Old Frisian ?re, Old Saxon ?ra, Old Dutch ?ra, Old High German ?ra, Old Norse eyra, Gothic ???????????????? (aus?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ???.re/

Noun

?are n (nominative plural ?aran)

1. ear (organ of hearing)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ere, eare, eere, yere, here, eyr, ire, ?here
  • English: ear
    • Tok Pisin: ia
  • Scots: ear

Plautdietsch

Verb

eare

1. to honour, to dignify
2. to venerate, to revere

Related terms

• Ea

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ?ria, from Proto-West Germanic *ai??n (“to honor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r?/

Noun

eare c (no plural)

1. honour

Further reading

• “eare (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011