"jērą" meaning in Proto-Germanic

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Noun

IPA: /ˈjɛː.rɑ̃/
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year”). This word eventually came to mean year in the sense of a unit of time in the daughter languages, but perhaps originally referred to a harvest, generally with a positive connotation. For the unit of time, see *wintruz. Etymology templates: {{der|gem-pro|ine-pro|*yóh₁r̥|t=year}} Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year”) Inflection templates: {{gem-decl-noun}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], jērą [nominative, singular], jērō [nominative, plural], jērą [singular, vocative], jērō [plural, vocative], jērą [accusative, singular], jērō [accusative, plural], jēras [genitive, singular], jēris [genitive, singular], jērǫ̂ [genitive, plural], jērai [dative, singular], jēramaz [dative, plural], jērō [instrumental, singular], jēramiz [instrumental, plural]
  1. year Tags: neuter, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-jērą-gem-pro-noun-TLTqJVg8
  2. (good) harvest Tags: neuter, reconstruction Synonyms (as a unit of time): wintruz
    Sense id: en-jērą-gem-pro-noun-0IfugZav Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 66 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 81 12 Disambiguation of Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 3 66 31 Disambiguation of 'as a unit of time': 0 77 23
  3. (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᛃ (j) Tags: neuter, reconstruction Derived forms (Old Norse: *æri): ⇒ Old Norse: einæri Derived forms (⇒ Old Norse: hallæri): ⇒ Icelandic: hallæri
    Sense id: en-jērą-gem-pro-noun-jIC8R7vH Disambiguation of 'Old Norse: *æri': 0 37 63 Disambiguation of '⇒ Old Norse: hallæri': 0 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: aþna-
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            "1": "gmw-pro",
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          },
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *jār\nOld English: ġēar, ġǣr, ġēr — Anglian\nMiddle English: yeer, here, yere, ȝere\nEnglish: year\nJamaican Creole: ier\nTok Pisin: yia\n→ Chuukese: ier\n→ Japanese: イヤー (iyā)\n→ Volapük: yel\nScots: year\nOld Frisian: jēr, jār, iēr\nNorth Frisian: juar, iir (Mooring), Jaar (Sylt)\nSaterland Frisian: Jíer\nWest Frisian: jier\nOld Saxon: jār, gēr\nMiddle Low German: jâr, jaer\nGerman Low German: Jåhr, Jahr, Johr\nPlautdietsch: Joa\nOld Dutch: jār\nMiddle Dutch: jâer\nDutch: jaar\nAfrikaans: jaar\nBerbice Creole Dutch: jari\nJersey Dutch: jâr\nNegerhollands: jaer, jaar, yer\n→ Aukan: yali\n→ Sranan Tongo: yari\n→ Caribbean Javanese: yari\n→ Saramaccan: jáa\nLimburgish: jaor\nWest Flemish: joar\nZealandic: jaer, jaor\nOld High German: jār\nMiddle High German: jār\nAlemannic German: Jòòr, Jààr\nBavarian: Jåhr, Joar, Joa\nCimbrian: jaar, djar (Luserna)\nMòcheno: jor\nCentral Franconian: Johr\nHunsrik: Joher\nLuxembourgish: Joer\nGerman: Jahr\nRhine Franconian:\nPennsylvania German: Johr, Yaahr\nSwabian: Joar, Johr\nSathmar Swabian: Johr\nVilamovian: jür\nYiddish: יאָר (yor)"
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          "args": {
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        }
      ],
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      ]
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          "word": "⇒ Old Norse: einæri"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 40 60",
          "sense": "⇒ Old Norse: hallæri",
          "word": "⇒ Icelandic: hallæri"
        }
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          "ᛃ",
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        "(Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᛃ (j)"
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      "ipa": "/ˈjɛː.rɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "aþna-"
    }
  ],
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    "Brill Publishers"
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}
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    "Proto-Germanic a-stem nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Germanic lemmas",
    "Proto-Germanic neuter nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic nouns",
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    },
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      "word": "⇒ Icelandic: hallæri"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        {
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          },
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          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *jār\nOld English: ġēar, ġǣr, ġēr — Anglian\nMiddle English: yeer, here, yere, ȝere\nEnglish: year\nJamaican Creole: ier\nTok Pisin: yia\n→ Chuukese: ier\n→ Japanese: イヤー (iyā)\n→ Volapük: yel\nScots: year\nOld Frisian: jēr, jār, iēr\nNorth Frisian: juar, iir (Mooring), Jaar (Sylt)\nSaterland Frisian: Jíer\nWest Frisian: jier\nOld Saxon: jār, gēr\nMiddle Low German: jâr, jaer\nGerman Low German: Jåhr, Jahr, Johr\nPlautdietsch: Joa\nOld Dutch: jār\nMiddle Dutch: jâer\nDutch: jaar\nAfrikaans: jaar\nBerbice Creole Dutch: jari\nJersey Dutch: jâr\nNegerhollands: jaer, jaar, yer\n→ Aukan: yali\n→ Sranan Tongo: yari\n→ Caribbean Javanese: yari\n→ Saramaccan: jáa\nLimburgish: jaor\nWest Flemish: joar\nZealandic: jaer, jaor\nOld High German: jār\nMiddle High German: jār\nAlemannic German: Jòòr, Jààr\nBavarian: Jåhr, Joar, Joa\nCimbrian: jaar, djar (Luserna)\nMòcheno: jor\nCentral Franconian: Johr\nHunsrik: Joher\nLuxembourgish: Joer\nGerman: Jahr\nRhine Franconian:\nPennsylvania German: Johr, Yaahr\nSwabian: Joar, Johr\nSathmar Swabian: Johr\nVilamovian: jür\nYiddish: יאָר (yor)"
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    },
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        }
      ],
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    {
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    },
    {
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  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/jērą",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "gem-pro:Time"
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        "year"
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          "year",
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      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈjɛː.rɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "aþna-"
    },
    {
      "sense": "as a unit of time",
      "word": "wintruz"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Brill Publishers"
  ],
  "word": "jērą"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Proto-Germanic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.