"erw" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɛɹuː/ Forms: erws [plural], erwau [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh erw. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|cy|erw}} Borrowed from Welsh erw Head templates: {{en-noun|s|erwau}} erw (plural erws or erwau)
  1. (historical) A medieval Welsh unit of surface area equal to 11664 sq ft, or about ¼ acre. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-erw-en-noun-Qj2llx1B Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Symbol [Translingual]

Head templates: {{mul-symbol/script|Latn}} Latn, {{head|mul|symbol|||or||or||or||cat2=|f1lang=en|f1nolink=|f2lang=en|f2nolink=|f3lang=en|f3nolink=|f4lang=en|f4nolink=|head=|head2=|head3=|head4=|image=|nolinkhead=|sc=Latn|sort=}} erw, {{mul-symbol}} erw
  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Erokwanas. Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Erokwanas terms
    Sense id: en-erw-mul-symbol-w1dJ2met Categories (other): ISO 639-3, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Translingual entries with incorrect language header, Translingual terms with redundant script codes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 39 55 1 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 56 1 4

Noun [Welsh]

IPA: /ˈɛru/ [North-Wales], /ˈeːru/ [South-Wales], /ˈɛru/ [South-Wales] Forms: erwau [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], erw [error-unrecognized-form], herw [prothesis-h]
Etymology: From Proto-Celtic *arwī (compare Breton erv, Cornish erow), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-wo- (“plowable”) (compare Old Irish arbor, Latin arvum). Etymology templates: {{root|cy|ine-pro|*h₂erh₃-}}, {{inh|cy|cel-pro|*arwī}} Proto-Celtic *arwī, {{cog|br|erv}} Breton erv, {{cog|kw|erow}} Cornish erow, {{inh|cy|ine-pro|*h₂erh₃-|*h₂erh₃-wo-|plowable}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-wo- (“plowable”), {{cog|sga|arbor}} Old Irish arbor, {{cog|la|arvum}} Latin arvum Head templates: {{cy-noun|f|erwau}} erw f (plural erwau) Inflection templates: {{cy-mut}}
  1. acre Tags: feminine Synonyms: acer, cyfair
    Sense id: en-erw-cy-noun-lofzemSO Categories (other): Units of measure Disambiguation of Units of measure: 53 47
  2. (obsolete) medieval Welsh unit of surface area equal to 11664 sq. ft. or about ¹⁄₄ acre Tags: feminine, obsolete
    Sense id: en-erw-cy-noun-UQpIEOsX Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header, Units of measure Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 1 99 Disambiguation of Units of measure: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: erwedd (english: acreage)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for erw meaning in All languages combined (5.0kB)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.