different between ears vs earsh

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??z/

Noun

ears

1. plural of ear

Derived terms

Verb

ears

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ear

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, arse, eras, rase, reas, sare, sear, sera

Old English

Alternative forms

• ærs

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?orsos. Cognate with Old Frisian ers, Old Saxon ars, Old High German ars, Old Norse ars ~ rass, and more distantly with Old Armenian ?? (o?, “ass”) and Modern Greek ???? (ourá, “tail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??rs/, [æ??r?s]

Noun

ears m (nominative plural earsas)

1. butt, arse

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: ars, arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars
  • English: arse, ass
  • Scots: ers, airse

English

Alternative forms

• arrish, arish, ersh, aish, airish, eddish, errish, hayrish, herrish

Etymology

From Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersc (“a park, preserve; stubble-field”).

Earsh (noun)(Old English ersc) was used in the south & west of England to describe a stubble field in which plant material – wheat, barley or rye- had been cut, leaving a short stubble or short stalks.

Noah Webster in Webster's Dictionary (1828) describes Earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, etch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??(?)/,

Noun

earsh (countable and uncountable, plural earshes)

1. (archaic) stubble field.
   • 1628 Fires oft are good on barren earshes made, With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade’ Translation of Georgics by Virgil, Thomas May,

Anagrams

• Asher, Rahes, Share, Shear, asher, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, share, shear