ear
/ˈɪə̯/ · noun
Meaning
- The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- A police informant.
- The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
- The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
- That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
- An acroterium.
- A crossette.
- A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
- A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
- The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
- A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
- To take in with the ears; to hear.
- To hold by the ears.
- The fruiting body of a grain plant.
- To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain does.
- To plough.
- Initialism of Enterprise Application Archive, a file format used to package Java applications.
- Initialism of estimated average requirements.
Etymology / origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Old English ēare Middle English ere English ear From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ere, er, eir, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål øre, Norwegian Nynorsk øyra), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), and Old Armenian ունկն (unkn).
- ունկն(Old Armenian)→
- οὖς(Ancient Greek)→
- vesh(Albanian)→
- у́хо(ru)→
- ausìs(lt)→
- auris(Latin)→
- áu(Old Irish)→
- *h₂ṓws(ine-pro)→
- øyra(Norwegian Nynorsk)→
- øre(da,nb)→
- öra(Swedish)→
- Ohr(German)→
- oor(Dutch)→
- ear(West Frisian)→
- ere(sco)→
- *ausô(gem-pro)→
- *auʀā(gmw-pro)→
- ēare(ang)→
- ere(Middle English)→
- *h₂ew-(ine-pro)→
- ear (English)
- Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
*h₂ew-(ine-pro)ere(Middle English)ēare(ang)*auʀā(gmw-pro)*ausô(gem-pro)ere(sco)ear(West Frisian)oor(Dutch)Ohr(German)öra(Swedish)øre(da,nb)øyra(Norwegian Nynorsk)*h₂ṓws(ine-pro)áu(Old Irish)auris(Latin)ausìs(lt)у́хо(ru)vesh(Albanian)οὖς(Ancient Greek)ունկն(Old Armenian)Oor(Alemannic German)হুঁশ(Bengali)øre(Danish)Ähre(German)イヤー(Japanese)ó(Middle Irish)ora(Old High German)ora(Old Saxon)Ohr(Pennsylvania German)aicher(Scots)yesi(Sranan Tongo)āk(Tocharian B)āka(Tocharian B)ia(Tok Pisin)
Descendant words
- Oor(Alemannic German) (cog)
- οὖς(Ancient Greek) (cog)
- হুঁশ(Bengali) (cog)
- øre(Danish) (cog)
- oor(Dutch) (cog)
- Ohr(German) (cog)
- Ähre(German) (cog)
- イヤー(Japanese) (bor)
- auris(Latin) (cog)
- ó(Middle Irish) (cog)
- ora(Old High German) (cog)
- ora(Old Saxon) (cog)
- Ohr(Pennsylvania German) (cog)
- aicher(Scots) (cog)
- yesi(Sranan Tongo) (der)
- āk(Tocharian B) (cog)
- āka(Tocharian B) (cog)
- ia(Tok Pisin) (inh)
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