Jersey

Etymology

From Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (“Geirr's”) +‎ ey (“island”). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛrze/, /ˈd͡ʒɛrzɪ/, /ˈd͡ʒɛrzi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒøːzi/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeːzi/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛːzi/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
• Hyphenation: jer‧sey

Proper noun

Jersey

2. An island, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom; a the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
   • 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN:

     The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force.

3. A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
4. An English earldom.
5. (US, informal, especially following north or south) New Jersey.
6. A town in Georgia, United States.

Noun

Jersey (plural Jerseys)

1. A cow of the Jersey breed.

Further reading

• Jersey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jersey cattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• New Jersey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Proper noun

Jersey m

1. Jersey

Etymology

Borrowed from English Jersey.

Proper noun

Jersey (genitive Jerseys)

1. Jersey (island)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.zɛ/

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Proper noun

Jersey f

1. Jersey (island)