different between keir vs eir

English

Noun

keir (plural keirs)

1. Alternative form of kier
   • 1902, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Sessional Papers, Volume 34, Part 2, page 7,

     The keirs, becks, washing machines, etc., are placed sufficiently low to allow of being fed from the water supply by gravitation, and the outlets placed just sufficiently high to reach the water line of the river a little above its normal flow.

   • 1919, Society of Dyers and Colourists, Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, Volume 35, page 35,

     Also fine clothes require longer treatment in the keir in order to secure good penetration by the chemie.

   • 1975, Owen Ashmore, The Industrial Archaeology of Stockport, page 31,

     The cloth was singed to remove superfluous fluff by being passed over heated copper plates and then boiled in bleaching keirs with lime or caustic soda.

Anagrams

• Erik, Keri, Kier, Rike, keri, kier, rike

English

Etymology

Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing "th" from their.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: air, ere

Determiner

eir

1. (rare) Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:eir.

Synonyms

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Derived terms

• eirs; eirself

Anagrams

• -ier, Eri., IRE, IrE, Ire., Rie, ire, rei, rie

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse eir, from Proto-Germanic *aiz. Cognate with Faroese eir, Norwegian eir, Danish ir, Old English ?r (> English ore), Old High German ?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ei?r/
• Rhymes: -ei?r
• Homophone: Eir

Noun

eir m (genitive singular eirs, no plural) or eir n (genitive singular eirs, no plural)

1. (uncountable) copper; a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.

Declension

Masculine declension:

Neuter declension:

Synonyms

• kopar m

Derived terms

• eirgræna (synonymous spanskgræna, verdigris)

Middle Welsh

Verb

eir

1. impersonal present indicative of mynet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

eir n (definite singular eiret, indefinite plural eir, definite plural eira or eirene)

1. Alternative form of irr

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse eir n, from Proto-Germanic *aiz n, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éyos n (“copper, bronze”). Germanic cognates include English ore, German ehern, Gothic ???????????? (aiz) and Danish ir. Indo-European cognates include Latin aes and Sanskrit ???? (ayas).

Noun

eir n (definite singular eiret, indefinite plural eir, definite plural eira)

1. verdigris (especially on copper)

Derived terms

• eira, eire, eirast (verb)
• eirete
• eirgrøn

See also

• irr (Bokmål)

References

• “eir” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin h?r?s.

Noun

eir m (oblique plural eirs, nominative singular eirs, nominative plural eir)

1. heir

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: heir, aire
  • ? Middle English: heir
    • English: heir
    • Scots: heir
    • ? Welsh: aer
• French: hoir (obsolete)
• ? Middle Irish: eigre
  • Irish: oidhre
  • Manx: eirey
  • Scottish Gaelic: oighre

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiz n, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éyos n.

Noun

eir n

1. brass, copper

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

In several of the descendant languages, the meaning has shifted from copper to verdigris.

• Icelandic: eir m or n
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eir
• Swedish: ärg c
• Danish: ir c
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: irr n

See also

• Eir

References

• eir in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ir

Etymology

From Latin e?, ?re, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey-.

Verb

eir

1. (Surmiran) to go

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ei?r/

Verb

eir

1. (literary) impersonal present/future of mynd

Synonyms

• elir