different between heere vs heire

English

Adverb

heere (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of here

Verb

heere

1. Obsolete spelling of hear

Middle Dutch

Noun

heere

1. Alternative spelling of hêre

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?r.

Noun

heere

1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 2

From Old English here.

Noun

heere

1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German hören, Dutch horen, English hear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?r?/

Verb

heere

1. to hear
2. to obey
3. to listen

Conjugation

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian h?ra, from Proto-West Germanic *hau?ijan. Cognates include West Frisian hearre and English hear.

Verb

heere

1. to hear

Conjugation

English

Noun

heire (plural heires)

1. Obsolete form of heir.
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

     How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]

Anagrams

• Heier, hiree

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

heire (plural heires or heiren)

1. Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 2

Noun

heire (plural heires)

1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly derived from Danish hejre which, like hegre, is derived from Old Norse hegri.

Noun

heire m (definite singular heiren, indefinite plural heirer, definite plural heirene)

1. Alternative spelling of hegre

References

• “heire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.