different between yore vs yure

English

Etymology

From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ?ore, ?are, ?eare, from Old English ?e?ra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *j?r??, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”). More at year.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yô, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: y?r, IPA^(key): /jo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /jo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: your, you're (accents with the pour–poor merger); yaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

yore (uncountable)

1. (poetic) a time long past.

Usage notes

A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.

Synonyms

• foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

Adverb

yore (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.

Synonyms

• long since, of old; see also Thesaurus:long ago

Anagrams

• Roye, oyer, yero

Middle English

Adverb

yore

1. yore (in a time long ago)
2. (with past participle) for a long time
   • c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Dictionary of English Verse, 1900):

     Ichabbe y-yerned yore.

References

• “y?re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology 1

Determiner

yure

1. Pronunciation spelling of your.

Etymology 2

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Noun

yure (uncountable)

1. (Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair

Etymology 3

From Middle English ?owre, from Old Norse júr, júgr (“udder”), from Proto-Germanic *eudar?, *?dar?. More at udder.

Alternative forms

• ewer, ure

Noun

yure (plural yures)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) udder

Anagrams

• Eury, Urey, eury-

Middle English

Determiner

yure

1. Alternative form of youre