different between jew vs jer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d?u?/
• Homophones: Jew, dew
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

Transferred use of Jew.

Alternative forms

• Jew

Verb

jew (third-person singular simple present jews, present participle jewing, simple past and past participle jewed)

1. (offensive) To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.

Related terms

• jew down
• kike

Noun

jew (plural jews)

1. (Australia) The jewfish. [from 19th c.]
   • 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:

     The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.

Etymology 2

Phrase

jew

1. Pronunciation spelling of d' you, representing colloquial English.
2. Pronunciation spelling of 'd you, representing colloquial English.

Anagrams

• jwé

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?aw).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?w/

Conjunction

jew

1. or
2. else

English

Etymology

From Russian ?? (jer) or ??? (jer?).

Noun

jer (plural jers)

1. (linguistics) Ultra-short or reduced vowel in Proto- and Late Common Slavonic (or Slavic), then represented as ? (back jer [?]) or ? (front jer [?]).

See also

• Yer
• Yery

Anagrams

• JRE

Chinese

Danish

Etymology

Archaic eder, from Old Danish idher, edher, Old Norse yðr, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz, dative/accusative of *j?z (“you (all)”) (see I). Cognate of Norwegian Bokmål dere, Swedish er, English you and German euch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ja??]

Pronoun

jer

1. (personal) second person plural objective case – you, yourselves

Gothic

Romanization

j?r

1. Romanization of ????????????

Kazakh

Noun

jer

1. Latin spelling of ??? (jer, “land, earth, soil; country; place; distance”)

Lombard

Etymology

From Late Latin her? (“yesterday”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je??/, /d?e??/

Adverb

jer

1. yesterday
2. Alternative form of ier

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• j?r, i?r

Etymology

from Proto-West Germanic *j?r, from Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”)

Noun

j?r n

1. year

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian: juar, jäär, iir
• Saterland Frisian: Jier
• West Frisian: jier

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?r/

Etymology 1

Noun

jer m inan

1. (linguistics) yer

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

jer m anim

1. brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)

Declension

Further reading

• jer in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• jer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *je že. Compare Slovene ker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jêr/

Conjunction

j?r (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. because, for (for the reason)

Synonyms

• j?rbo
• budu?i da

References

• “jer” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Pronoun

jer m (feminine jeny, neuter jes)

1. that, that one