different between eare vs heare

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

Verb

heare

1. Obsolete spelling of hear
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

     How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]

Aromanian

Noun

heare

1. Alternative form of heari

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

heare

1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

heare

1. Alternative form of here (“their”)