different between yer vs yea

English

Etymology 1

Most likely from the intrusive R, between "yeah" (/j??/) and a non-high vowel (/?/, /??/, /??/, /??/). For example, "Yeah-r-I know" (/j?? ?? n??/)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?(?)/

Pronoun

yer

1. (Britain, slang or dialectal, uncommon) Pronunciation spelling of you.

Derived terms

• yerself, yerselves

Adverb

yer

1. (Britain, slang or dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of yeah, yes.

Contraction

yer

1. (Britain, slang or dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of you're, you are.
   • 1991, Kathleen Dayus, Where There's Life, London: Virago Press Ltd

     Yer a lotta nosey parkers.

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

     ‘Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh,’ said Hagrid. ‘Harry – yer a wizard.’

Determiner

yer

1. (Britain or Southern US, slang or dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of your.
   • 1991, Thomas Hayden, The Killing Frost, London: Random Century Group

     'Make yer way down to the station,' he said.

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

     ‘Las’ time I saw you, you was only a baby,’ said the giant. ‘Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh’ve got yer mum’s eyes.’

See also

• ya
• jer

Etymology 2

Russian ?? (jer).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /j??/, /j?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j??/

Noun

yer (plural yers)

1. Either of the letters ? and ? in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.

Anagrams

• -ery, Rey, Rye, e'ry, eyr, rye, yre

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *y?r. Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (yer), ????????????? (yir).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jer?]

Noun

yer (definite accusative yeri, plural yerl?r)

1. the earth

2. ground

3. place, location

4. space

Declension

Derived terms

• yerli (“local”)
  • yerli hal (“locative”)
  • yerlibazl?q (“unjustly favoring of one's fellow countrypeople”)
• yersiz (“out of place”)

References

Blagar

Noun

yer

1. water

References

• Paideuma, volume 52 (2006), page 152

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?je??/

Noun

yer f pl

1. Plural form of yar.

Cornish

Noun

yer f pl

1. plural of yar (“chicken, hen”)

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *y?r. Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (yer), ????????????? (yir) and Azebaijani yer.

Noun

yer

1. earth.
2. place, location.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French hier.

Adverb

yer

1. yesterday

Derived terms

• avantyer

Meroitic

Romanization

yer

1. Romanization of ?????????????

Scots

Pronoun

yer

1. your

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???, from Proto-Turkic *y?r. Compare Old Turkic ????????? (yer), ????????????? (yir).

Noun

yer (definite accusative yeri, plural yerler)

1. place, location

2. the ground, the earth

Declension

Derived terms

• yer f?st???

See also

• yer yer

Etymology 2

Verb

yer

1. third-person singular present simple indicative positive degree of yemek

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *y?r (“earth”).

Noun

yer

1. earth
2. soil, ground

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ye, ?ea, ya, ?a, from Old English ??a, i? (“yea, yes”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *y? (“already”). Cognate with Scots yea, ya (“yes, yea, indeed, so”), Saterland Frisian ja, jee (“yes”), West Frisian ja (“yes”), Dutch ja (“yes”), German ja (“yes, yea”), Swedish ja, jo (“yes, well, indeed”), Icelandic já (“yes”), Latin iam (“now, already”), Italian già (“now, already”), Spanish ya (“now, already”), Polish ju? (“already”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: yay

Adverb

yea (not comparable)

1. (dated) Yes, indeed.
   • 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

2. Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture).

   The pony was yea high.

Synonyms

• (yes): aye, yep, yes, yup, yeah, yigh (when contradicting)

Antonyms

• nay
• no

Conjunction

yea

1. (archaic) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
   • • (with modern spelling) [N]ow such a life ungodly, without a care of doing the will of the Lord (though they profess him in their mouths, yea though they believe and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea have knowledge of the Scriptures) yet if they live ungodly, they deny God, and therefore shall be denied
   • c. 1633, The Flea, by John Donne

     O stay, three lives in one flea spare,

     Where we almost, yea, more than married are.

Interjection

yea

1. (in some dialects of American English, including Southern, Western, and African American Vernacular) Yeah, right, yes.

Noun

yea (plural yeas)

1. An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken

   Antonym: nay

Etymology 2

From yeah.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

yea

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of yeah

Etymology 3

See yay.

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/

Interjection

yea

1. Misspelling of yay.

Anagrams

• Aye, aye, yae