heuer

heuer

See also: Heuer

German

Etymology

From Middle High German hiure, from Old High German hiuro, hiuru, from hiu (“in this”) +‎ jāru (“year”).[1] Compare German heute from Old High German hiu tagu ("this day").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔʏ̯ɐ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ̯ɐ
• Homophone: Heuer

Adverb

heuer

1. (Southern German, dialectal, colloquial) (Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, standard) this year

   Synonym: (the general form) dieses Jahr

   Coordinate term: fert

Usage notes

• The word is never used in northern and central Germany. It may even—at least by less educated speakers—be misinterpreted as a synonym of heute (“today”). It does however occasionally mean heutigentags (“nowadays”) or heute (“nowadays”), for example:
  • 1654, Salomons von Golaw Deutscher Sinn-Getichte Drey Tausend, Breslau, p. 210, nr. [8]71 Heutige Welt-Kunst:

    [...]
    Wer sich desen wil befleissen
    Kan Politisch heuer heissen.

Derived terms

• heurig

Verb

heuer

1. inflection of heuern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

References

1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “heuer”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

• “heuer” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “heuer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “heuer” in Duden online