ger

Clipping of English German.

ger

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for German.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of German terms

Borrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger)/ᠭᠡᠷ (ger).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

ger (plural gers)

1. A yurt.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 133:

     The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

   • 2016 November 11, Zahra Jamshed and Stella Ko, “Beyond the yurt: Mongolian life caught on camera”, in CNN‎^[1], spoken by Paul Cox:

     In weather conditions that hit -20 degrees or lower, people in the poorer areas of the city have no access to running water, no access to bathroom facilities, often living in little “yurts” or “gers” on dirt roads.

Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּר (ger).

ger (plural gerim)

1. (Judaism) A male convert to Judaism; a Jewish proselyte.

   Coordinate term: giyoret

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg

From Proto-Albanian *gaura. Compare Lithuanian gauras (“hair, down, tuft of hair”), Latvian gauri (“pubic hair”) and Middle Irish gúaire (“hair”).^[1]

ger m

1. squirrel (furry)

   Synonym: ketër

From Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English caru (“sorrow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːr/

ger m (plural gerioù)

1. word
   • 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages, page 202:

     Skrijal a rae Loeiz o tistagan ar ger [...] 'Louis screamed in pronouncing the word'.

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• geriadur (“dictionary”)

Clipping of English manager.

ger

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) manager
   • 2006 January 10, “薪高上位易 學子爭入「四大」”, in 香港經濟日報‎^[2]:

     做三年可升「sin」（senior）、做六年升「ger」（manager），做滿十年更有機會成為「partner」… [Cantonese, trad.]
     做三年可升「sin」（senior）、做六年升「ger」（manager），做满十年更有机会成为「partner」… [Cantonese, simp.]

     zou⁶ saam¹ nin⁴ ho² sing¹ “sin¹” (senior), zou⁶ luk⁶ nin⁴ sing¹ “zoe⁴” (manager), zou⁶ mun⁵ sap⁶ nin⁴ gang³ jau⁵ gei¹ wui⁶ sing⁴ wai⁴ “partner”... [Jyutping]

     One can be promoted to senior after three years of work, a manager after six years, and even perhaps a partner after ten years […]

ger

1. (Cantonese) alternative form of 脧 (“penis”)

ger

1. (Cantonese) alternative form of 啫 (“to target, to annoy someone verbally”)

From Proto-Brythonic *gėr, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-, zero grade of *ǵeh₂r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ysār-, “to sing”), Latin garriō (“chatter”), Old English ċearu (“sorrow”).

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡɛːr]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡeːr]

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ger m (plural geryow)

1. word, term
2. saying
3. report

From Old Norse geirr, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰays- (“pointed stick, spear”).

• IPA^(key): [ɡeˀr]

ger c (singular definite geren, plural indefinite gerer)

1. (obsolete, rare) spear

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃeːɹ]
• Homophone: gerð

From Old Norse [Term?].

ger f (genitive singular gerar, uncountable)

1. yeast

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ger

1. third-person singular present of gera
2. imperative singular of gera

• IPA^(key): /cɛːr/
• Rhymes: -ɛːr

Borrowed from Danish gær, from Old Norse gerð, from Proto-Germanic *garwidō.

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. yeast

   Synonym: jöstur

Inherited from Old Norse gør, from Proto-Germanic *garwiją or *gerwą.

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. rotting things (as feed)
2. flock, swarm (of carrion birds, flies, etc.)

Inherited from Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gǫrr, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

ger (not comparable)

1. ready, fully prepared

• gersemi

Inherited from Old Norse gerr, cognate with Old High German ger (“greedy”).

ger (comparative gerari, superlative gerastur)

1. greedy, gluttonous

Inherited from Old Norse gerr, gjǫrr, gørr, from Proto-Germanic *garwiz, comparative of the adverb corresponding to ger (3).

ger (comparative form; superlative gerst)

1. better, more thoroughly

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), “ger”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

• IPA^(key): /jeːr/
• Rhymes: -ēr

ġēr n (nominative plural ġēr) (Late West Saxon, Anglian, late Kentish)

1. alternative form of ġēar

Strong a-stem:

From Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”).

gēr m

1. spear

   Synonym: azgēr

• azgēr

• ⇒? Latin: Germanus
• Lombardic: ger
  • →⇒ Italian: gherone
• Middle High German: gēr
  • German: Ger

From Proto-West Germanic *ger, from Proto-Germanic *geraz.

gër

1. greedy

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• giri

Variant of jār.

gēr n

1. year

Inherited from Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʒer]

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ger n (plural geruri)

1. frost (cold weather that causes frost to form)
2. frigidness, frosty weather

• degera
• gerar

• frig
• brumă

• IPA^(key): /jeːr/

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ger

1. present indicative of ge, contracted from the archaic giver

Probably a mutated form of cer, second-person singular imperative of mynd.

Alternatively, related to er (“for, through”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr

ger

1. next to, near

   Synonyms: ar bwys, gerllaw, yn ymyl

2. beside

   Synonym: wrth

• gerbron (“before, in the presence of”)
• gerllaw (“nearby”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “ger”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies