eyer

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See also: Eyer and eþer

English

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Etymology

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From eye +‎ -er.

Noun

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eyer (plural eyers)

  1. One who eyes someone or something.
    • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,[3]
      The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.
    • 2010, Robert Coover, Noir[4], New York: Overlook Duckworth, page 97:
      You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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eyer (plural eyeres)

  1. Alternative form of eyrer (female swan)

Etymology 2

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Adverb

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eyer

  1. Alternative form of er (early)

Etymology 3

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Noun

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eyer (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of air (air)

Etymology 4

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Noun

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eyer (plural eyeres)

  1. Alternative form of heir (heir)

Etymology 5

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Noun

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eyer

  1. Alternative form of eyre

Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایر[1][2] or اگر (eyer),[3] from Proto-Turkic *ēder.[4][5][6]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /eˈjæɾ/
  • Hyphenation: e‧yer

Noun

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eyer (definite accusative eyeri, plural eyerler)

  1. saddle (seat on an animal)

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative eyer
Definite accusative eyeri
Singular Plural
Nominative eyer eyerler
Definite accusative eyeri eyerleri
Dative eyere eyerlere
Locative eyerde eyerlerde
Ablative eyerden eyerlerden
Genitive eyerin eyerlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular eyerim eyerlerim
2nd singular eyerin eyerlerin
3rd singular eyeri eyerleri
1st plural eyerimiz eyerlerimiz
2nd plural eyeriniz eyerleriniz
3rd plural eyerleri eyerleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular eyerimi eyerlerimi
2nd singular eyerini eyerlerini
3rd singular eyerini eyerlerini
1st plural eyerimizi eyerlerimizi
2nd plural eyerinizi eyerlerinizi
3rd plural eyerlerini eyerlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular eyerime eyerlerime
2nd singular eyerine eyerlerine
3rd singular eyerine eyerlerine
1st plural eyerimize eyerlerimize
2nd plural eyerinize eyerlerinize
3rd plural eyerlerine eyerlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular eyerimde eyerlerimde
2nd singular eyerinde eyerlerinde
3rd singular eyerinde eyerlerinde
1st plural eyerimizde eyerlerimizde
2nd plural eyerinizde eyerlerinizde
3rd plural eyerlerinde eyerlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular eyerimden eyerlerimden
2nd singular eyerinden eyerlerinden
3rd singular eyerinden eyerlerinden
1st plural eyerimizden eyerlerimizden
2nd plural eyerinizden eyerlerinizden
3rd plural eyerlerinden eyerlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular eyerimin eyerlerimin
2nd singular eyerinin eyerlerinin
3rd singular eyerinin eyerlerinin
1st plural eyerimizin eyerlerimizin
2nd plural eyerinizin eyerlerinizin
3rd plural eyerlerinin eyerlerinin

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 292
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 215
  3. ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “اَگَر”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 144
  4. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “eḏer”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 63
  5. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ẹ̆dŋe-r”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  6. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eyer”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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