# err
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɜː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
* (Scotland) IPA: /ɛr/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /øː/
* (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /eː/
* (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ɛː/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ɜː(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
* Homophone: (all non-US pronunciations, /ɝ/ US pronunciation:) er
* Homophones: (/ɛɚ/ US pronunciation, all fair–fur merger pronunciations:) air, are (“unit of measurement”), ayr, Ayr, e'er, ere, eyre, heir

#### Verb

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)
* (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
    He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.
** 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation‎, page 7:Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
* (intransitive) To sin.
* (archaic) to stray.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

##### Derived terms

* errable
* erroneous
* err on the side of
* err on the side of caution
* error
* inerrable
* to err is human

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

err
* Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).
    Err... what did you just say?

## Albanian
### Etymology

According to Orel, Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).
Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).

### Noun

err m
* dark, darkness

#### Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

#### Synonyms

* terr

#### Derived terms

* errem
* irë
* errësirë

## Estonian
### Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

## Faroese
### Noun

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)
* The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛrː]
* Hyphenation: err
* Rhymes: -ɛrː

### Noun

err
* The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

#### Declension
### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

### Further reading

* r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛrː/
    Rhymes: -ɛrː

### Noun

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)
* The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

#### Declension
## Võro
### Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.