different between ears vs earst

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

Adverb

earst (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of erst
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921),^[1] Book I:

     So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
     And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
     The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
     In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
     With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
     Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]

Anagrams

• 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• èerste (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German ?rste, from Old High German ?rist, from Proto-West Germanic *airist.

Adjective

earst (not comparable)

1. (Luserna) first

References

• “earst” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian ?rest (“first”). Cognates include North Frisian iarst and English erst

Adjective

earst

1. first

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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

Adverb

earst

1. firstly, at first

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

earst

1. predicative superlative degree of ier