yeer

See also: yeʼer

English

Noun

yeer (plural yeers)

1. Obsolete spelling of year.

Anagrams

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• here, yere, ȝere

Etymology

From Old English ġēar, from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą.

Noun

yeer (plural yeeres or yeer)

1. year
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 22–28:

     Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]

     You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]

Derived terms

• yere of our lord

Descendants

• English: year
  • Jamaican Creole: ier
  • Tok Pisin: yia
  • → Chuukese: ier
  • → Japanese: イヤー (iyā)
  • → Volapük: yel
• Scots: year

References

• “yēr, n.²”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.