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err
English
Etymology
From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin err? (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??(?)/, (rare) /??(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /??/, /?/
- Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)
Verb
err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)
- (intransitive) To make a mistake.
- Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
- (intransitive) To sin.
- (archaic) to stray.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:make a mistake
Derived terms
Translations
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aur?ra, Lithuanian aušrà).
Noun
err m
- dark, darkness
Synonyms
- terr
Derived terms
- irë
Estonian
Noun
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Faroese
Noun
err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Declension
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??r?]
- Hyphenation: err
- Rhymes: -?r?
Noun
err
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Declension
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) bet?; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ?, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ?, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading
- r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?/
- Rhymes: -?r?
Noun
err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Declension
Võro
Noun
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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thy
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?, IPA(key): /ða?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
From Middle English þi, apocopated variant of þin, from Old English þ?n, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?n, from Proto-Germanic *þ?naz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh? (“thou”). See thou.
Determiner
thy
- (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
Translations
See also
- thee
- thine
- thou
- thyself
- your
Etymology 2
Conjunction
thy
- (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)
See also
- why
- forwhy
Middle English
Etymology 1
Determiner
thy
- Alternative form of þi (“thy”)
Etymology 2
Determiner
thy
- Alternative form of þe (“the”)
Etymology 3
Pronoun
thy
- Alternative form of þe (“thee”)
Etymology 4
Pronoun
thy
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Etymology 5
Adverb
thy
- Alternative spelling of þy (“the”)
Etymology 6
Noun
thy (plural thies)
- Alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)
Scots
Alternative forms
- dee
Etymology
From þi, apocopated variant of Middle English þin, from Old English þ?n, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?n, from Proto-Germanic *þ?naz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ð?e/
- (Orkney) IPA(key): /ði/
- (Shetland) IPA(key): /di/
Determiner
thy
- (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thy, your (possessive form of thou)
Usage notes
- Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.
References
- “thy, poss. pron.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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