different between eyre vs byre

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”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English bire, bier, byr, from Old English b?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

byre (plural byres)

1. (chiefly Britain) A barn, especially one used for keeping cattle in.
   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

     It was here in the kitchen, in the passage,

     In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market-place [...]

   • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, page 9 (2001 Perennial Edition):

     The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brey, Byer, Erby, yerb

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“son”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. child, son, descendant; young man, youth

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“hill, elevation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. mound

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favourable wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. strong wind, storm

Descendants

• Middle English: bir
  • English: birr

Etymology 4

From Proto-Germanic *burjaz (“opportunity”), related to Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by.re/

Noun

byre m (nominative plural byras or byre)

1. time, opportunity; occurrence

Derived terms

• ambyre (“favorable, fair”)

Etymology 5

Probably related to Old English b?r. Perhaps identical to the word for a farm or dwelling in German -büren, Dutch -buren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?by?.re/

Noun

b?re n (nominative plural b?ru)

1. stall, shed, hut

Derived terms

• c?b?re m (“cow-byre, cow-shed”)

Descendants

• English: byre

Scots

Etymology

From Old English b?re, but possibly influenced in usage by Gaelic "bò" meaning a cow.

Noun

byre (plural byres)

1. A cattle shed or outhouse

Derived terms

• Byreman, cattleherd
• Byregraip, a dung fork.