ger

ger

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

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.

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)

• 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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g=m

• 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‎^[1]:

     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]

ger m (plural geryow)

1. word
2. saying
3. report

• gerlyver ("dictionary")

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

ger

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

From Old Norse [Term?].

ger f (genitive singular gerar, uncountable)

1. yeast

• 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

• (yeast): jöstur

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.)

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

ger (not comparable)

1. ready, fully prepared

• gersemi

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

ger (comparative gerari, superlative gerastur)

1. greedy, gluttonous

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 — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

• IPA^(key): /jeːr/

ġēr n (nominative plural ġēr)

1. Alternative form of ġēar

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

gēr m

1. spear

   Synonym: azgēr

• azgēr

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

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

ger

1. greedy

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• giri

Variant of jār.

ger 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

• gerar

• degera

• 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/

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