yr

yr (plural yrs)

1. Abbreviation of year.

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

1. fresh

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 194

From Egyptian

(jtrw, “river”).

• IPA^(key): /joʔɾ/, /joɾ/

⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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

• 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/

ȳr m

1. the runic letter ᚣ (/y/)

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/

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• Rhymes: -yːr

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

yr

1. dizzy
2. lively, jolly, skittish

• yra
• yrsel
• yrvaken

• yr in Svensk ordbok.
• 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)