eyer

From eye + -er.

eyer (plural eyers)

1. One who eyes someone or something.
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,^[3]

     The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.

   • 2010, Robert Coover, Noir‎^[4], New York: Overlook Duckworth, page 97:

     You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.

• Eyre, Reye, eery, eyre, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

eyer

1. alternative form of eyrer (“female swan”)

eyer

1. alternative form of er (“early”)

eyer

1. alternative form of air (“air”)

eyer

1. alternative form of heir (“heir”)

eyer

1. alternative form of eyre

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایر^[1][2] or اگر (eyer),^[3] from Proto-Turkic *ēder.^[4][5][6]

• IPA^(key): /eˈjæɾ/
• Hyphenation: e‧yer

eyer (definite accusative eyeri, plural eyerler)

1. saddle (seat on an animal)

• “eyer”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “eyer”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1526