Erie

From French Érié, from the shortening of an Erie word rendered in French as Erieehronon, Eriechronon, and Riquéronon and said to mean “long tail” or “long-tailed”, in reference to the eastern cougar (Puma concolor cougar).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪɹi/

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• (US, without the mirror–nearer merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪɚi/, /ˈiɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪəɹi/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈiɹɪ/, /ˈi.ɹe/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈiəɹi/
• Homophones: eerie, eyrie; airy (cheer–chair merger)
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹi

Erie pl (plural only)

1. A tribe of Native Americans.

Erie

2. A lake in Canada and the United States, one of the Great Lakes of North America

   Synonym: Lake Erie

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in present-day Hale County, Alabama.
   2. A town in Weld County and Boulder County, Colorado.
   3. A township and village in Whiteside County, Illinois.
   4. An unincorporated community in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
   5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Miami County, Indiana.
   6. Two townships, in Neosho County and Sedgwick County, Kansas.
   7. A small city, the county seat of Neosho County, Kansas, United States.
   8. A township in Monroe County, Michigan.
   9. A township in Becker County, Minnesota.
   10. An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
   11. A township and census-designated place therein, in Cass County, North Dakota.
   12. A township in Ottawa County, Ohio.
   13. A city, the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania.
4. Any of a number of other places in North America; see Erie (disambiguation) at Wikipedia.

• Erie County
• Fort Erie
• Lake Erie

• Eire

Unadapted borrowing from English Erie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ri/

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• Rhymes: -iri
• Syllabification: E‧rie

Erie n (indeclinable)

1. Erie (a lake in Canada and the United States, one of the Great Lakes of North America)

   jezioro Erie ― Lake Erie

   Tego lata Erie powitało nas burzą. ― This summer, Lake Erie welcomed us with a storm.

• Urzędowy Wykaz Polskich Nazw Geograficznych Świata [Official List of Polish Geographical Names of the World]‎^[596] (in Polish), 2nd updated edition, Warszawa: Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii, 2019, →ISBN
• “Erie”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)