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Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing "th" from their.
- (General American) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /ɛɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /ɛə/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
- Homophones: air, ere
eir
- (rare, nonstandard) Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.
1997 November 25, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, in alt.cellular[2] (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>:
If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.
- 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202
- “You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!”
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- Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran, only Aeran. E seized Asu and clasped her close, eir eyes closed tightly as e sobbed eir relief.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:eir.
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From Old Norse eir, from Proto-Germanic *aiz. Cognate with Faroese eir, Norwegian eir, Danish ir, Old English ār (> English ore), Old High German ēr.
eir m (genitive singular eirs, no plural) or
eir n (genitive singular eirs, no plural)
- (uncountable) copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29)
- Synonym: kopar m
- eirgræna, spanskgræna (“verdigris”)
eir
eir n (definite singular eiret, indefinite plural eir, definite plural eira or eirene)
- Alternative form of irr
From Old Norse eir n, from Proto-Germanic *aiz n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos n (“copper, bronze”). Germanic cognates include English ore, German ehern, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz) and Danish ir. Indo-European cognates include Latin aes and Sanskrit अयस् (ayas).
eir n (definite singular eiret, indefinite plural eir, definite plural eira)
- irr (Bokmål)
- “eir” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
eir oblique singular, m (oblique plural eirs, nominative singular eirs, nominative plural eir)
From Proto-Germanic *aiz n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos n.
eir n
- eiraltari n (“brazen altar”)
- eirbaugr m (“brazen ring”)
- eirguð m (“an idol of brass”)
- eirhjalmr m (“brazen helmet”)
- eirker n (“brazen vessel”)
- eirketill m (“brazen kettle”)
- eirkross m (“brazen cross”)
- eirkyrtill m (“brazen cloak”)
- eirligr (“brazen”)
- eirnǫkkvi m (“brazen boat”)
- eirormr m (“brazen serpent”)
- eirpeningr m (“brass coin, copper coin”)
- eirpípa f (“brass tube”)
- eirskjǫldr m (“brazen shield”)
- eirsteypari m (“brass founder”)
- eirstolpi m (“pillar of brass”)
- eirteinn m (“brass wire”)
- eiruxi m (“brazen ox”)
In several of the descendant languages, the meaning has shifted from copper to verdigris.
- Icelandic: eir m or n
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eir n
- → Norwegian Bokmål: eir n
- Swedish: ärg c
- Danish: ir c
- Norwegian Bokmål: irr n
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “eir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
eir
eir
- (literary) impersonal present/future of mynd