different between geg vs ger

English

Alternative forms

• gaig, gay

Etymology

Origin unknown. Perhaps from Old English *g?gan (“to go, walk, pass by”), as in forg?gan (“to transgress, trespass, prevaricate, pass by, neglect, omit”), oferg?gan (“to transgress”), or from Old Norse geiga (“to deviate to the side, go the wrong way, rove at random”), both from Proto-Germanic *gaigijan?, *g?gan? (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ey??-, *g?eyg?- (“to gape, protrude”), from Proto-Indo-European *???y(w)-, *??y?w- (“to yawn, gape”).

Cognate with Old Frisian g?ia (“to overstep, exceed”), Norwegian dialectal geige (“to sway back and forth”), Middle High German g?gen (“to play the violin”), Old English g?nan (“to gape”). More at jig.

Verb

geg (third-person singular simple present gegs, present participle gegging, simple past and past participle gegged)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) To walk carelessly or in a careless manner.
2. (dialectal) To swing.

Derived terms

• geg in

Anagrams

• EGG, Egg, GGE, egg

Welsh

Noun

geg

1. Soft mutation of ceg.

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mongolian ??? (ger)/??? (ger).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????(?)/

Noun

ger (plural gers)

1. A yurt.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 133:

     The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew ????? (ger).

Noun

ger (plural gerim)

1. A male convert to Judaism.

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gaura. Compare Lithuanian gauras (“hair, down, tuft of hair”), Latvian gauri (“pubic hair”) and Middle Irish gúaire (“hair”).

Noun

ger m

1. squirrel (furry)

Related terms

• ketër

References

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *g?r, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *?h?r-, zero grade of *?eh?r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ys?r-, “to sing”), Latin garri? (“chatter”), Old English caru (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?r/

Noun

ger m (plural gerioù)

1. word
   • 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 202.

     Skrijal a rae Loeiz o tistagan ar ger [...] 'Louis screamed in pronouncing the word'.

Derived terms

• geriadur ("dictionary")

Inflection

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *g?r, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *?h?r-, zero grade of *?eh?r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ys?r-, “to sing”), Latin garri? (“chatter”), Old English ?earu (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [???r]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [?e?r]

Noun

ger m (plural geryow)

1. word
2. saying
3. report

Derived terms

• gerlyver ("dictionary")

Mutation

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??e??]
• Homophone: gerð

Etymology 1

Verb

ger

1. third-person singular present of gera

he, she, it does, makes

1. imperative singular of gera

do! make!

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Norse [Term?].

Noun

ger f (genitive singular gerar, uncountable)

1. yeast

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c??r/
• Rhymes: -??r

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish gær, from Old Norse gerð, from Proto-Germanic *garwid?.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. yeast

Declension

Synonyms

• (yeast): jöstur

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gør, from Proto-Germanic *garwij? or *gerw?.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. rotting things (as feed)
2. flock, swarm (of carrion birds, flies, etc.)

Declension

Etymology 3

From Old Norse gerr, gj?rr, g?rr, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

Adjective

ger (not comparable)

1. ready, fully prepared

Inflection

Etymology 4

From Old Norse gerr, cognate with Old High German ger (“greedy”).

Adjective

ger (comparative gerari, superlative gerastur)

1. greedy, gluttonous

Inflection

Etymology 5

From Old Norse gerr, gj?rr, gørr, from Proto-Germanic *garwiz, comparative of the adverb corresponding to ger (3).

Adverb

ger (comparative form; superlative gerst)

1. better, more thoroughly

References

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

Old English

Alternative forms

• ??ar

Etymology

Variant of ??ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?r/

Noun

??r n (nominative plural ??r)

1. year
2. the runic character ? (/j/)

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”).

Noun

g?r m

1. spear

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Lombardic: ger
  • ?? Italian: gherone
• Middle High German: g?r
  • German: Ger

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *ger, from Proto-Germanic *geraz.

Adjective

ger

1. greedy

Alternative forms

• giri

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Old Saxon

Etymology

Variant of j?r.

Noun

ger n

1. year

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin gel?, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??er]

Noun

ger n (plural geruri)

1. frost (cold weather that causes frost to form)
2. frigidness, frosty weather

Declension

Derived terms

• gerar

Related terms

• degera

See also

• frig
• brum?

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?r/

Verb

ger

1. present tense of ge., contracted from the archaic giver

Welsh

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Preposition

ger

1. next to, near

   Synonym: ar bwys

2. beside

   Synonym: wrth

Derived terms

• gerbron (“before, in the presence of”)
• gerllaw (“nearby”)

Westrobothnian

Adjective

ger

1. Alternative spelling of gjer