different between yare vs eare

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yare, ?are, from Old English ?earu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”).

Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, gerr (“perfect”).

Alternative forms

• yar (for the nautical sense)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

yare (comparative yarer, superlative yarest)

1. (archaic) Ready; prepared.
2. (Britain dialectal) Ready, alert, prepared, prompt.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III scene iv^[1]:

     […] Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly.

3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble.
4. (nautical, of a ship) Easily manageable and answering readily to the helm; yar.
   • c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry

     The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.

Derived terms

• yarely

Translations

Adverb

yare (comparative more yare, superlative most yare)

1. (archaic) Yarely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene i^[2]:

     Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle. […]

Etymology 2

Noun

yare

1. Alternative form of yair

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, aery, ayre, eyra, year

Japanese

Romanization

yare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Tocharian B

Noun

yare

1. gravel

English

Noun

eare (plural eares)

1. Archaic spelling of ear.

Anagrams

• aere

Latin

Verb

e?re

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of e?

Middle English

Noun

eare

1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

Old English

Etymology

From the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ows-. Cognate with Old Frisian ?re, Old Saxon ?ra, Old Dutch ?ra, Old High German ?ra, Old Norse eyra, Gothic ???????????????? (aus?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ???.re/

Noun

?are n (nominative plural ?aran)

1. ear (organ of hearing)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ere, eare, eere, yere, here, eyr, ire, ?here
  • English: ear
    • Tok Pisin: ia
  • Scots: ear

Plautdietsch

Verb

eare

1. to honour, to dignify
2. to venerate, to revere

Related terms

• Ea

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ?ria, from Proto-West Germanic *ai??n (“to honor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r?/

Noun

eare c (no plural)

1. honour

Further reading

• “eare (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011