different between eyen vs eyer

English

Etymology

From Middle English eien, eyen, i?en (nominative plural of eie), from Old English ?agan (nominative plural of ?age), from Proto-West Germanic *aug?n (nominative plural of *aug?), from Proto-Germanic *aug?n? (nominative plural of *augô).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?n/

Noun

eyen

1. (dialectal or obsolete) plural of eye

Anagrams

• eeny, eyne, yeen

Middle English

Noun

eyen

1. Alternative form of eien

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