ger

Borrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛə(ɹ)/

ger (plural gers)

1. A yurt.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 133:

     The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּר‎ (ger).

ger (plural gerim)

1. A male convert to Judaism.

• EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg

From Proto-Albanian *gaura. Compare Lithuanian gauras (“hair, down, tuft of hair”), Latvian gauri (“pubic hair”) and Middle Irish gúaire (“hair”).

ger m

1. squirrel (furry)

• ketër

From Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyo- (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English ċearu (“sorrow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːʁ/

ger m (plural gerioù)

1. word
   • 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 202.

     Skrijal a rae Loeiz o tistagan ar ger [...] 'Louis screamed in pronouncing the word'.

• geriadur ("dictionary")

From Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyo- (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English ċearu (“sorrow”).

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡɛːr]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡeːr]

ger m (plural geryow)

1. word
2. saying
3. report

• gerlyver

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃeːɹ]
• Homophone: gerð

ger

1. 3rd person singular present of gera

he, she, it does, makes

1. imperative singular of gera

do! make!

From Old Norse [Term?].

ger f (genitive singular gerar, uncountable)

1. yeast

• IPA^(key): /cɛːr/
• Rhymes: -ɛːr

Borrowed from Danish gær, from Old Norse gerð, from Proto-Germanic *garwidō.

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. yeast

• (yeast): jöstur

From Old Norse gør, from Proto-Germanic *garwiją or *gerwą.

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. rotting things (as feed)
2. flock, swarm (of carrion birds, flies, etc.)

From Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gǫrr, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

ger (not comparable)

1. ready, fully prepared

From Old Norse gerr, cognate with Old High German ger (“greedy”).

ger (comparative gerari, superlative gerastur)

1. greedy, gluttonous

From Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gørr, from Proto-Germanic *garwiz, comparative of the adverb corresponding to ger (3).

ger (comparative form; superlative gerst)

1. better, more thoroughly

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

• ġēar

Variant of ġēar.

• IPA^(key): /jeːr/

ġēr n (nominative plural ġēr)

1. year
2. the runic character ᛄ (/j/)

From Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”).

gēr m

1. spear

• Middle High German: gēr
  • German: Ger
• → Italian: gherone

Variant of jār.

ger n

1. year

From Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

ger n (plural geruri)

1. frost (cold weather that causes frost to form)
2. frigidness, frosty weather

• gerar

• degera

• frig
• brumă

• IPA^(key): /jeːr/

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ger

1. present tense of ge., contracted from the archaic giver

ger

1. next to

• ar bwys

ger

1. Alternative spelling of gjer