Jersey
See also: jersey
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman Gersui, after which disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (“Geirr's”) + ey (“island”). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the official Latin translation of the island, as it was known in Roman times.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
- Hyphenation: Jer‧sey
Proper noun
Jersey
- A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
- A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
- An English earldom.
- (US, informal) New Jersey.
- A town in Georgia, United States.
Derived terms
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Translations
island
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cattle
New Jersey
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Noun
Jersey (plural Jerseys)
- A cow of the Jersey breed.
See also
Catalan
Proper noun
Jersey m
Danish
Etymology
Proper noun
Jersey (genitive Jerseys)
- Jersey (island)
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Jersey ?
- Jersey (island)
Italian
Proper noun
Jersey m
- Jersey (island)
- The letter J in the Italian phonetic alphabet
- Synonym: Jesolo
Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Jersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Jersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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Portuguese
Proper noun
Jersey f
- Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)
Spanish
Proper noun
Jersey f
Derived terms
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- Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)zi
- English lemmas
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- en:Jersey
- en:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- en:Places in the United Kingdom
- en:Islands
- American English
- English informal terms
- en:Towns in Georgia, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Georgia, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Cattle
- Catalan lemmas
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- da:Islands
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- fr:Islands
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- it:Islands
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- nb:Islands
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- nn:Islands
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- pt:Jersey
- pt:Islands
- pt:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- pt:Places in the United Kingdom
- pt:United Kingdom
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns