different between ore vs orl

English

Etymology

From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ?ra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ?r (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-Germanic *aiz (cognates Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic ???????????? (aiz, “ore”)), from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h?éyos. Compare Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan ????????????????????? (aiiah), Sanskrit ???? (áyas, “copper, iron”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?r, IPA^(key): /o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: oar, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger); aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

1. Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.

Derived terms

• iron ore
• orefield

Translations

See also

• ore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EOR, REO, ROE, Roe, o'er, roe

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [u????]

Noun

ore

1. plural of oor

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• oarã

Etymology

From Latin h?ra. Compare Romanian oar?.

Noun

ore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)

1. a time, instance

Basque

Noun

ore inan

1. dough

Borôro

Noun

ore

1. child

Galician

Verb

ore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of orar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of orar

Guaraní

Pronoun

ore

1. us
2. our

See also

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ore

Noun

ore f

1. plural of ora

Anagrams

• ero, Ero, reo

Japanese

Romanization

ore

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

?re n

1. ablative singular of ?s

References

• ore in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ?ra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

• Dutch: oor
  • Afrikaans: oor
• Limburgish: oear

Further reading

• “ore”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “ore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Etymology 3

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of youre

Etymology 4

Determiner

ore

1. (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 5

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of hore (“muck”)

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ore.

Adverb

ore

1. now

Descendants

• French: or

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ?ra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ore n

1. ear

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Oor
• Bavarian: Oar
• Central Franconian: Uhr, Ohr
  • Hunsrik: Oher
  • Luxembourgish: Ouer
• German: Ohr
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: Ohr

• Vilamovian: ür
• Yiddish: ?????? (oyer)

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon ?ra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô²
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /??r?/

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

• Low German: Ohr
  • Dutch Low Saxon: oor
  • German Low German: Or, Ur

    Plautdietsch: Oa, Ua

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.re/

Noun

ore f

1. A mine, place in which ore is dug

Declension

Derived terms

• ?sern?re (“iron mine”)

Related terms

• ?ra (“ore”)
• gyldenwe?? (“gold mine”)

Old French

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• or, ores

Adverb

ore

1. now

Descendants

• French: or (archaic)

Etymology 2

From Latin h?ra, from Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra).

Alternative forms

• hore, eure, heure, eur, heur

Noun

ore f (oblique plural ores, nominative singular ore, nominative plural ores)

1. hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     quel haste avez,
     Qui a tel ore vos levez?

     What haste do you have

     That wakes up at this time of day?

Descendants

• English: hour
• French: heure
• Norman: heure, houre (continental Norman), heuthe (Jersey), haeure (Guernsey)

Portuguese

Verb

ore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of orar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of orar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of orar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of orar

Romanian

Noun

ore f pl

1. plural of or?

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ore (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. third-person singular present of orati

Spanish

Verb

ore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of orar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of orar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of orar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of orar.

Tarantino

Noun

ore

1. gold

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ôrl, IPA^(key): /??l/
• (US) enPR: ôrl, IPA^(key): /??l/
• Homophone: orle

Etymology 1

Metathetic variant of olr, itself a variant of alr, itself a contraction of aller, itself a form of alder closer to the original Old English form of alor, aler (the d was a phonetic addition in Middle English); compare the English oryelle, as well as the Old High German erila, the Middle High German erle, and the Modern German Erle.

Noun

orl (plural orls)

1. (in some British dialects, now rare) An alder tree.
2. (obsolete, rare, elliptically) orl fly

Derived terms

• orl fly (angling)

References

• “Orl” listed on page 205 of volume VII (O–P) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1909]
  Orl, dial. form of olr, alr, Alder, the tree. [¶] [c 1440, see Oryelle.] 1747 R. Bowlker Art of Angling 27 This Hedge ought to be made chiefly of Orls. 1804 Duncumb Hist. Hereford I. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Orl, the wood alder. [¶] Hence Orl-fly, ellipt. Orl, the alder-fly, Sialis lutarius, used by anglers. [¶] 1747 R. Bowlker Art of Angling 69 The Orle Fly..is the best Fly to Fish with after the May Flyes are gone. 1787 Best Angling (ed. 2) 115 The Orl fly comes on the latter end of May and continues on till the latter end of June. 1875 W. Houghton Brit. Insects 64 The well-known orl or Alder-fly (Sialis lutarius).
• “orl” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
• “orl, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, September 2004)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling.

Adverb

orl (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of all.

   That’s orl right.

Anagrams

• LRO, Lor, lor