different between oyer vs eyer

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman oyer (“hear”).

Noun

oyer (uncountable)

1. (law, archaic) A hearing in a civil case which is based on the content of a document, in which the plaintiff is required to produce the document.

Usage notes

• A defendant who formally asks for oyer is said to crave oyer.

Related terms

• oyer and terminer

Anagrams

• Roye, yero, yore

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aud?re, present active infinitive of audi?.

Verb

oyer

1. to hear
2. to listen

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• oyíu

Old French

Verb

oyer

1. Alternative form of oïr

English

Etymology

eye +? -er

Noun

eyer (plural eyers)

1. One who eyes someone or something.
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,^[1]

     The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.

   • 2010, Robert Coover, Noir, New York: Overlook Duckworth, p. 97,^[2]

     You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.

Anagrams

• Eyre, Reye, eery, eyre, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

eyer (plural eyeres)

1. Alternative form of eyrer (“female swan”)

Etymology 2

Adverb

eyer

1. Alternative form of er (“early”)

Etymology 3

Noun

eyer (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of air (“air”)

Etymology 4

Noun

eyer (plural eyeres)

1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Etymology 5

Noun

eyer

1. plural of ey (“egg”)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????, ?????, ???? (eyer), from Proto-Turkic *?der.

Noun

eyer (definite accusative eyeri, plural eyerler)

1. saddle (seat on an animal)

Derived terms

• eyerli
• eyersiz