different between yer vs yern

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

Alternative forms

• yearn

Etymology

From Middle English yern (“willing, eager”), from Old English ?eorn (“eager”), from Proto-West Germanic *gern, from Proto-Germanic *gernaz.

Cognate with Danish gerne (“gladly”), Dutch gaarne (“with pleasure, gladly”), German gern (“willingly, gladly”), Icelandic gjarn (“willing, keen, eager”), Icelandic gjarna (“willingly, readily, gladdly”), Swedish gärna (“willingly, gladly”). See also yearnful and yearnfully.

Pronunciation

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

Homophone: yearn

Adjective

yern

1. (obsolete) Willing, eager, covetous, swift, nimble, earnest.

   • But of her songe, it was so loude & erne
     As any swalowe syttynge on a berne

Adverb

yern

1. (obsolete) eagerly, heartily, gladly, willingly, earnestly.
   • 1865, Frederick James Furnivall, A Royal Historie of the Excellent Knight Generides

     Who was so hardie and so stern? Tel me now, I pray you yern

   • c. 1515, unknown The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis

     All the people cried yern? God Master, now defend thy bairn.

   • 1513, Gavin Douglas, The Eneados

     The black swarm ower the fields walks yerne

Usage notes

For the adverb, the form yearnly can also be found, but is much rarer.

References

• yern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• The Dictionary of Early English
• A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Verb

yern (third-person singular simple present yerns, present participle yerning, simple past and past participle yerned)

1. Obsolete form of yearn.

Anagrams

• NYer, Nery, reyn