yr

yr (plural yrs)

2. Abbreviation of year.

   Alternative forms: y, a (“annum”)

yr

1. Abbreviation of your.
   • 1985 December 7, “Albert in NYC (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 13:

     Got yr card. Problem is: don't have yr address! Wd love to see you. Write w/number! xo Jeremy.

   • 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 136:

     On her street he reached into his pocket, pulled out his phone and typed: On yr St. U free? The answer came back: Door open.

yr

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Contraction of you +‎ are.

Learned borrowing from Old English ȳr, the literal translation of which is uncertain: perhaps “yew” or “bow (made of yew)”, based on Old Norse ýr.

• (learned, academic) IPA^(key): /yːr/

yr

1. A letter of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, ᚣ, representing the vowel sounds /y/ and /yː/ in Old English.

• -ry, Ry.

From Proto-Brythonic *ir (compare Welsh ir), from Proto-Celtic *ɸūros, from Proto-Indo-European *puHrós, from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to be clean, pure”). Compare Irish úr.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɪːr]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [iːr]

yr (comparative yrra / moy yr, superlative an moyha yr / an yrra)

1. fresh

   Synonyms: fresk, kriv, kro, nowydh

• “yr” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 194

From Egyptian

(jtrw, “river”).

• IPA^(key): /joʔɾ/, /joɾ/

⁠⁠⁠⁠ (yr) m

1. river, canal

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠ (yꜥr)

• yr-ꜥꜣ

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲟⲣ (ior)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲟⲣ (eioor)

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954), Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 50
• Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001), The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago‎^[1], volume Y (01.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 11

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yïr (“song”)

yr (ïr)(Codex Cumanicus)

1. song

• Kumyk: йыр (yır)
• Karachay-Balkar: джыр (cır)
• Crimean Tatar: yır

• Argunşah, Mustafa; Güner, Galip (2015), Codex Cumanicus (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 1491), 2022 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 165

• IPA^(key): /ər/

From Old Welsh ir, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *sindos.

• ’r (used after vowels)
• y (used before consonants other than h)

yr (definite)

1. the

Uncertain. Certainly not the definite article, as it appears before proper nouns and personal pronouns, neither of which is normally preceded by the article. Held by Morris Jones and Evans to be originally a deponent ending; thus heb yr would be originally a single word, from something like *sekʷ‑re.^[1][2] However, there is no evidence that Proto-Celtic *sekʷeti or Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”) ever took deponent endings, nor is *‑re a known deponent verb ending.

• y (before a consonant other than h)

yr

1. meaningless particle used after heb (“says, said”)
   • 14th century, anonymous author, translated by Charlotte Guest, edited by R. L. Thomson, Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet (Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series; vol. I), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, published 1980, page 5, lines 116–17:

     ‘A unben,’ heb yr Hafgan, ‘pa dylyet a oed iti ar uy angheu i?’

     “O Chieftain,” said Havgan, “what right hast thou to cause my death?”

yr

1. (rare) alternative form of yð

yr

1. (rare) alternative form of yð

• IPA^(key): /yːr/, [yːɾ], [yːʁ]

From yre (“to drizzle”). Cognate to Swedish yr.

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra or yrene)

1. (weather, rain) drizzle

From yre (“to swarm, teem”).

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra or yrene)

1. a myriad, swarm

Unknown

yr (masculine and feminine yr, neuter yrt, definite singular and plural yre, comparative yrere, indefinite superlative yrest, definite superlative yreste)

1. cheerful, jolly, merry

• “yr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “yr” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /yːr/, [yːɾ], [yːʁ]

From yre (“to drizzle”). Cognate to Swedish yr.

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra)

1. (weather) drizzle

From yre (“to swarm, teem”).

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra)

1. a myriad, swarm

Unknown

yr (neuter yrt, definite singular and plural yre, comparative yrare, indefinite superlative yrast, definite superlative yraste)

1. cheerful, jolly, merry

• “yr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Probably borrowed from Old Norse ýr (“yew, a bow, the runic letter ᛦ”).

• IPA^(key): /yːr/
• Rhymes: -yːr

ȳr m

1. the runic character ᚣ (/y(ː)/)
   • 9th c., The Old English rune poem:

     ᚣ (yr) byþ æþelinga and eorla ġehwǣs wyn and wyrþmynd; byþ on wiċġe fæġer, fæstlīc on færelde fyrdġeatewa sum.

     ᚣ (bow) is for princes and earls alike Delight and an honor; it is fair on horse, Reliable on the journey, a real piece of war-gear!

yr (first-person singular present indicative vou, past participle ydo)

1. obsolete spelling of ir

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /yːr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -yːr

Inherited from Old Swedish ø̄r, yr, from Old Norse ǿrr.

yr

1. dizzy

   Synonym: snurrig

   yr i huvudet ― dizzy (literally, “dizzy in the head”)

   yr i mössan (colloquial) ― dizzy (literally, “dizzy in the hat”)

2. lively, jolly, skittish

   Synonym: livlig

• yra (“to be delirious”)
• yrsel (“dizziness”)
• yrvaken (“half-awake”)

• “yr”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• yr in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

yr

1. present indicative of yra
2. imperative of yra

From yra and ur with related senses. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål yr, Norwegian Nynorsk yr.

yr n

2. alternative form of ur
3. alternative form of yra
4. swirling dust or substance
5. water splash drizzle, spray

• ur
• yra

• sandyr, variant of sandyra (“sand's whirling; sand drift; sand drifting with the wind”)
• snöyr (“snowstorm, snowfall, flurry”)
• yrsnö (“swirling snow”)
• yrväder (“annoying precipitation”)

• ry.

• IPA^(key): /ər/

yr

1. alternative form of y (used before a word starting with a vowel or h)

yr

1. alternative form of y (used before a word starting with a vowel or h)