yeer
English
Noun
yeer (plural yeers)
- 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)
- year
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, line 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 […]
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Derived terms
- yere of our lord
Descendants
- English: year
- Scots: year