different between eare vs gare

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

Compare gear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)/

Noun

gare (uncountable)

1. coarse wool on the legs of sheep

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Blount to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gear, rage

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

gare

1. Inflected form of gaar

Verb

gare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of garen

French

Etymology

From garer (“to dock, park”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/, /???/
• Homophone: Gard

Noun

gare f (plural gares)

1. railway station

Derived terms

• gare ferroviaire
• gare routière

Verb

gare

1. inflection of garer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Interjection

gare

1. (transitive with à) beware (something)

   Gare au refroidissement !

   Synonym: attention

Derived terms

• sans crier gare

Further reading

• “gare” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• géra, rage, ragé

German

Verb

gare

1. inflection of garen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Noun

gare f

1. plural of gara

Anagrams

• agre, egra, erga

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English g?r, from Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz.

Alternative forms

• gar, gore, gere, gære

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?r/, /????r/

Noun

gare (plural gares)

2. (chiefly Early Middle English) A weapon (especially one with a sharp point, such as a spear, or a sword)

Related terms

• garfysche
• garlek
• nauger
• goren

Descendants

• English: gar, gore

References

• “g?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 2

Noun

gare

1. Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French gare.

Noun

gare f (plural gares)

1. train station or platform

Scots

Adjective

gare (comparative mair gare, superlative maist gare)

1. greedy; miserly