different between eare vs eave

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

English

Etymology

A back-formation from eaves, from a misinterpretation of the -s ending as forming a plural.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /i?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /iv/
• Homophones: eve, Eve
• Rhymes: -i?v

Noun

eave (plural eaves)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of eaves (“the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building”) [from mid 18th c.]

Derived terms

• eaved
• eaving

References

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English even, from Old English ?fen, from Proto-West Germanic *?banþ.

Noun

eave

1. eve

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN