different between hour vs undern

English

Alternative forms

• hower, houre, howre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin h?ra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ??ar (“year”). Doublet of hora.

Displaced native Middle English stunde, stound (“hour, moment, stound”) (from Old English stund (“hour, time, moment”)), Middle English ?etid, tid (“hour, time”) from Old English *?et?d, compare Old Saxon get?d (“hour, time”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ow??r, IPA^(key): /?a??(?)/
• (US, Canada) enPR: owr, IPA^(key): /?a??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Homophone: our (depending on accent)
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Noun

hour (plural hours)

1. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
2. A season, moment, or time.
   • Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.

3. (poetic) The time.

4. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
6. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

Synonyms

• (period of sixty minutes, a season or moment): stound (obsolete)

Derived terms

Pages starting with “hour”.

Synonyms

• Singular: h, hr
• Plural: h, hrs

Translations

Anagrams

• rohu

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hour

1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 2

Determiner

hour

1. Alternative form of oure

References

• “our(e, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

Etymology 3

Determiner

hour

1. Alternative form of youre

English

Alternative forms

• underne, undirn

Etymology

From Middle English undern, ondern, from Old English undern (“third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning”), from Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?ter, *h?enter (“between”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch onder, dialectal German Untern, dialectal Swedish undarn.

Noun

undern (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of terce: the third hour of daylight (about 9 am). [10^th-15^thc.]
2. (obsolete) Synonym of noon: the sixth hour of daylight (12 pm). [14^th-15^thc.]
3. (Britain, dialectal) Synonym of afternoon. [15^thc.]
4. (Britain, dialectal) Synonym of evening. [15^thc.]
5. (Britain, dialectal) A light meal, particularly in the afternoon. [17^thc.]

Synonyms

• (noon): meridian, sext; see also Thesaurus:midday
• (afternoon): arvo; see also Thesaurus:afternoon
• (evening): eventide; see also Thesaurus:evening
• (light meal): snack

Derived terms

• andersmeat, half undern, high undern, undermeal, undern-bell, undern-song, underntide, undertide, whole undern

Translations

References

• "undern, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• dunner, end run, runned

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?ter, *h?enter (“between”). Influenced in sense by Latin tertia. Cognate with Old Norse undorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?un.dern/, [?un.der?n]

Noun

undern m

1. terce, the third hour of the day (around 9 am)
2. (in some later use) midday, the sixth hour of the day (12 pm)
3. (in compounds) morning generally

Synonyms

• (third hour): undernm?l, underntid, underntima
• (sixth hour): middæ?

Hypernyms

• stunda, tid

Derived terms

• underngereord, underngifl, undernmete, undernrest, undernsang, undernswæsendu

Descendants

• Middle English: ondern, undern
  • English: undern

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “undern”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.