different between ter vs jer

English

Particle

ter

1. (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of to.
   • 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, p. 31:

     "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."

   • 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv:

     ‘Do you mean ter tell me,’ he growled at the Dursleys, ‘that this boy – this boy! – knows nothin’ abou’ – about ANYTHING?’

Preposition

ter

1. (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of to.
   • 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv:

     ‘What about that tea then, eh?’ he said, rubbing his hands together. ‘I’d not say no ter summat stronger if yeh’ve got it, mind.’

Adverb

ter (not comparable)

1. (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of to.

Anagrams

• ERT, ETR, Ret., ert, ret

Abinomn

Noun

ter

1. river

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *taura, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.

Noun

ter m (indefinite plural tera, definite singular teri, definite plural terat)

1. bull

   Synonym: dem

Declension

Derived terms

• tarok

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *tarsja, from *torseje, from Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti (“to make dry”), from *ters- (“dry”). Cognate to Sanskrit ??????? (t??yati), Latin torreo, Old Norse þerra.

Verb

ter (first-person singular past tense tera, participle terur)

1. I dry, dry off

Derived terms

• terë
• term
• shter
  • shterë
  • shteroj

Related terms

• djerr

References

Chuukese

Adjective

ter

1. devastated, ruined
2. disabled

Dutch

Etymology

Contraction of te + the old feminine singular dative definite article der.

Pronunciation

Contraction

ter

1. for, for the (followed by a feminine singular noun, e.g., one ending in -ing).

2. in the

Usage notes

Like ten, ter occurs mostly in fixed idiomatic expressions, while voor and in (+ de/het) are the standard. With feminine nouns ending in -ing, -te, -heid, etc., it still enjoys a limited productivity:

Derived terms

• ter wille van

Related terms

• ten

French

Adverb

ter

1. (in street numbering) b; designating a third house with the same number.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese teer, from earlier Old Portuguese t?er, from Latin ten?re (“to hold, to have”), present active infinitive of tene? (“I hold, I have”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?te?]

Verb

ter (first-person singular present teño, first-person singular preterite tiven, past participle tido)

1. to hold, have
2. to possess

   Synonym: posuír

3. (auxiliary, with the preposition de) ought to
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Afonso:

     E como està o afillado?

     Christobo:

     Esse jà quer ir a Escola,

     pero porque non tèn sayo

     està decote na Eyra

     para escorrentar o Gando.

     Afonso:

     Pois esso non e ben feyto,

     porque e vivo coma vn allo,

     fino coma vnha pimenta,

     e se quer ser Lecenceado

     an que venda os bois do jugo

     lle teño de dar estado.

     Afonso:

     How is doing my godchild?

     Christobo:

     He already want to go to school,

     but since he has no robe

     is all the time in the field

     to drive away the livestock.

     Afonso:

     But this is not correct,

     because he is smart as a whip,

     acute as a pepper grain,

     and if he wants to be a bachelor,

     even if I have to sell the yoke oxen,

     I ought to give him estate.

4. first-person singular personal infinitive of ter
5. third-person singular personal infinitive of ter

Conjugation

Derived terms

• non ter dúbida
• ter que
• termar

Related terms

See also

• haber

References

• “te_er” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “teer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ter” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “ter” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ter” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch teer (“tar”), from Proto-Germanic *terw?, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?r/
• Hyphenation: tèr

Noun

ter (first-person possessive terku, second-person possessive termu, third-person possessive ternya)

1. tar, the black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.

Alternative forms

• tar
• tir

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?r/
• Hyphenation: tèr

Noun

ter (first-person possessive terku, second-person possessive termu, third-person possessive ternya)

1. Alternative spelling of tir.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?r/
• Hyphenation: tèr

Noun

ter (first-person possessive terku, second-person possessive termu, third-person possessive ternya)

1. (law) additional article.

Further reading

• “ter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From earlier terr, from Old Latin *tris, from Proto-Italic *tr?s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ter/, [t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ter/, [t??r]

Adverb

ter (not comparable)

1. thrice
   • 2004 Ephemeris

Usage notes

• Ter is a prefix or suffix designating the third instance of a thing, thus following bis (“second”) and preceding quater (“fourth”).

Derived terms

• tern? (distributive numeral)
• teruncius

References

• ter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle Dutch

Contraction

ter

1. Contraction of te der.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English teoru, teru, from Proto-Germanic *terw?, from Proto-Indo-European *dérwom. Forms with a short vowel are possibly from an Old English form *teor with loss of the final vowel.

Alternative forms

• teer, tere, terr, tarr, terre, tarre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??r(?)/, /?t?r/

Noun

ter (uncountable)

2. Tar or a similar substance.

Descendants

• English: tar
• Scots: tar

References

• “t??r, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-25.

Etymology 2

Noun

ter

1. Alternative form of tere (“tear”)

Etymology 3

Noun

ter

1. Alternative form of teere (“good”)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• têr (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese teer, from earlier Old Portuguese t?er, from proto-Ibero-Romance tener < tenere, from Latin ten?re, present active infinitive of tene? (“I hold”), from Proto-Italic *ten??, stative from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?te?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?te(?)/, [?t?e(?)]
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): /?te(?)/, /?te(?)/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?te(?)/, /?te(?)/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /?te(h)/

Verb

ter (first-person singular present indicative tenho, past participle tido)

1. to have
   1. (transitive) to own; to possess; to have; to have got

   2. (intransitive) to be rich, to have plenty of money; or, to have enough money to live comfortably

   3. (transitive) to have as a component or to consist of

   4. (transitive) to have (to be related in some way to, with the object identifying the relationship)

   5. (transitive) to be in possession of; to have as part of one’s personal effects; to have in hand

   6. (transitive) to consist of a certain amount of units of measurement

   7. (transitive) to have a certain characteristic

   8. (transitive) to be afflicted with a certain disease or other medical condition

   9. (transitive) indicates that the subject has an event (the object) scheduled

   10. (intransitive) to receive one’s wage

2. (auxiliary with de or que and a verb in the infinitive) must; to have to
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 538:

3. (auxiliary) to have
   1. (imperfect indicative forms followed by a masculine singular past participle) forms the past perfect

   2. (present indicative forms followed by a masculine singular past participle) forms the present perfect progressive

   3. (conditional forms followed by a masculine singular past participle) forms the conditional perfect

4. (impersonal, transitive) there be (to exist, physically or abstractly)

5. (transitive) to give birth to

6. (copulative or transitive with por or como) to consider (assign some quality to)

7. (transitive with com) to go to; to interact with somebody
   • Bíblia Sagrada, edição Almeida Revista e Corrigida, Provérbios 6:6

Usage notes

For verbs that distinguish between particípio passado curto (short past participle) and particípio passado longo (long past participle) — for example morrer (“to die”), whose short past participle is morto and long is morrido — when ter is used as an auxiliary verb, the long past participle must be used (like haver, and unlike ser and estar).

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ter.

Synonyms

• (to possess): possuir
• (to have as a component): possuir
• (to consist of): consistir de
• (to be in possession of): carregar
• (to be afflicted with): sofrer de
• (to receive one’s wage): receber
• (to have to; must): dever, precisar
• (there be): existir, haver
• (to give birth to): dar à luz, parir
• (to consider): considerar

Derived terms

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• te
• tere

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *teže, from Proto-Slavic *te + *že.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ter/

Conjunction

ter (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Croatia, poetic, archaic) and

Synonyms

• i, te

Swedish

Verb

ter

1. present tense of te.

Anagrams

• ert, tre

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (ter, “sweat”), Proto-Turkic *d?r (“sweat”), cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ter), Karakhanid ????? (ter), Azerbaijani t?r, etc.

Noun

ter

1. sweat

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te?]

Noun

ter (nominative plural ters)

1. aunt or uncle

Declension

Hyponyms

• zian (“aunt”)
• ziom (“uncle”)

Derived terms

• hiter (“uncle”)
• jiter (“aunt”)

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