different between eyed vs eyer

English

Etymology

From Middle English eyed, eied, i?ed, y-y?ed, equivalent to eye +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?d/
• Homophone: I'd

Adjective

eyed (not comparable)

1. Having eyes.
2. Having eye-like spots.

   The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]

     What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.

   • 1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6, [2]

     Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.

   • 1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592:

     Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

   • 1960, Elie Wiesel, Night, translated by Stella Rodway, New York: Bantam, 1986, p. 61,

     Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.

Hyponyms

Related terms

Verb

eyed

1. simple past tense and past participle of eye

Anagrams

• yede, yeed

Middle English

Alternative forms

• i?ed, yhed, ei?ede, y-y?ed, eied

Etymology

From eie +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?id/, /?i?id/, /??i??d/, /?i??d/

Adjective

eyed

1. eyed; having (a certain type of) eye.
2. (of cheese, rare) Having holes.

Descendants

• English: eyed

References

• “eied, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.

English

Etymology

eye +? -er

Noun

eyer (plural eyers)

1. One who eyes someone or something.
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,^[1]

     The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.

   • 2010, Robert Coover, Noir, New York: Overlook Duckworth, p. 97,^[2]

     You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.

Anagrams

• Eyre, Reye, eery, eyre, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

eyer (plural eyeres)

1. Alternative form of eyrer (“female swan”)

Etymology 2

Adverb

eyer

1. Alternative form of er (“early”)

Etymology 3

Noun

eyer (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of air (“air”)

Etymology 4

Noun

eyer (plural eyeres)

1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Etymology 5

Noun

eyer

1. plural of ey (“egg”)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????, ?????, ???? (eyer), from Proto-Turkic *?der.

Noun

eyer (definite accusative eyeri, plural eyerler)

1. saddle (seat on an animal)

Derived terms

• eyerli
• eyersiz