eyer

See also: Eyer and eþer

English

Etymology

eye +‎ -er

Noun

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

• Eyre, Reye, eery, eyre, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

eyer (plural eyeres)

1. Alternative form of eyrer (“female swan”)

Etymology 2

Adverb

eyer

1. Alternative form of er (“early”)

Etymology 3

Noun

eyer (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of air (“air”)

Etymology 4

Noun

eyer (plural eyeres)

1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Etymology 5

Noun

eyer

1. Alternative form of eyre

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایر or اگر (eyer), from Proto-Turkic *ēder.

Cognates

• Azerbaijani yəhər
• Bashkir эйәр (eyər)
• Chuvash йӗнер (jĕner)
• Crimean Tatar eger
• Gagauz ер
• Karachay-Balkar иер (iyer)
• Karaim эр
• Karakhanid اَذَرْ (eδer)
• Kazakh ер (er)
• Khakas изер (izer)
• Kumyk ер (yer)
• Kyrgyz ээр (eer)
• Nogai иер (iyer)
• Shor эзер
• Southern Altai ээр (eer)
• Tatar ияр (iyar), iyär
• Tofa ээ
• Turkmen eýer
• Tuvan эзер (ezer)
• Uyghur ئىگەر (iger)
• Uzbek egar
• Yakut ыҥыыр (ıñıır)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

eyer (definite accusative eyeri, plural eyerler)

1. saddle (seat on an animal)

Declension

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

• eyer boşaltmak
• eyer kaltağı
• eyer kapatmak
• eyerci
• eyere de gelir semere de
• eyeri boş kalmak
• eyerlemek

 

Further reading

• “eyer”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “eyer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1526