different between ears vs vars

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

Noun

vars

1. plural of var

Anagrams

• ARVs, VRSA, ravs

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fars/

Adjective

vars (attributive varse, comparative varser, superlative varste)

1. fresh

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *varci. Cognate with Finnish varsi.

Noun

vars (genitive varre, partitive vart)

1. stalk
2. shaft

Inflection

Derived terms

• käsivars

Icelandic

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive singular of var

Latgalian

Noun

vars m

1. copper

Romanian

Verb

vars

1. first-person singular present indicative of v?rsa
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of v?rsa

Swedish

Etymology 1

From an older interrogative adverb hvarest (“whereto, whither”), see varest, from Old Swedish hvaris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]
• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Adverb

vars

1. (dialectal, Northern Sweden) where

Usage notes

• Used both with motion and direction, where standard Swedish would use var and vart, respectively.

Etymology 2

Clipping of bevars, itself a contraction of (Gud) bevare oss (”may God save us”), from the present subjunctive of bevara (“to save, to keep”), and oss (“us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Interjection

vars

1. (colloquial) Added to an answering interjection to signify that the answer does not have full validity

Etymology 3

See main entry var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive plural of var
2. indefinite genitive singular of var

Etymology 4

• (relative pronoun) From Old Swedish hvars, genitive of hvar (“which, every”).
• (distributive pronoun) From a reanalysis of varsin, varsitt (“one each”) (from var +? sin, sitt) as consisting of vars + en, ett (“one”) and then expanded to further numerals, e.g. vars två (”two each”), standard Swedish två var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun, distributive pronoun) /v??rs/, [v???], [v???s]
• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun) /vars/, [va?]

Pronoun

vars

1. (relative pronoun) whose (of whom)
2. (distributive pronoun, dialectal, Scania) each

Usage notes

• Not used as an interrogative pronoun, in which case vems (singular) or vilkas (plural) is used.
• The use of vars with a plural referent was earlier proscribed in favour of vilkas, but is now accepted, e.g.:

References

• vars in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vars in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Vars. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 21 October 2013.

Anagrams

• arvs, sarv, svar