different between eyer vs eyre

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

English

Etymology

From Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /???/, /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)

Noun

eyre (plural eyres)

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

Anagrams

• Eyer, Reye, eery, eyer, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

Middle English

Noun

eyre

1. Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)