# yr
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

yr (plural yrs)
* Abbreviation of year.

### Etymology 2
#### Determiner

yr
* 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.

### Etymology 3
#### Contraction

yr
* (Internet slang, text messaging) Contraction of you are.

### Etymology 4

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.

#### Pronunciation

* (learned, academic) IPA: /yːr/

#### Noun

yr
* A letter of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, ᚣ, representing the vowel sounds /y/ and /yː/ in Old English.

### Anagrams

* -ry, Ry.

## Cornish
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA: [ɪːr]
* (Revived Late Cornish) IPA: [iːr]

### Noun

yr
* fresh

### References

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

## Demotic
### Etymology

From Egyptian
(jtrw, “river”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /joʔɾ/, /joɾ/

### Noun

⁠⁠⁠⁠ m
* river, canal

#### Alternative forms

* ⁠⁠⁠⁠ (yꜥr)

#### Derived terms

* yr-ꜥꜣ

#### Descendants

* Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲟⲣ (ior)
* Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲟⲣ (eioor)

### References

* 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, volume Y (01.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 11

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yːr/, [yːɾ], [yːʁ]

### Etymology 1

From yre (“to drizzle”).

#### Noun

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra or yrene)
* (weather, rain) drizzle

### Etymology 2

From yre (“to swarm, teem”).

#### Noun

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra or yrene)
* a myriad, swarm

### Etymology 3

Unknown

#### Adjective

yr (masculine and feminine yr, neuter yrt, definite singular and plural yre, comparative yrere, indefinite superlative yrest, definite superlative yreste)
* cheerful, jolly, merry

### References

* “yr” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “yr” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yːr/, [yːɾ], [yːʁ]

### Etymology 1

From yre (“to drizzle”).

#### Noun

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra)
* (weather) drizzle

### Etymology 2

From yre (“to swarm, teem”).

#### Noun

yr n (definite singular yret, indefinite plural yr, definite plural yra)
* a myriad, swarm

### Etymology 3

Unknown

#### Adjective

yr (neuter yrt, definite singular and plural yre, comparative yrare, indefinite superlative yrast, definite superlative yraste)
* cheerful, jolly, merry

### References

* “yr” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from Old Norse ýr (“yew, a bow, the runic letter ᛦ”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yːr/

### Noun

ȳr m
* the runic letter ᚣ (/y/)

## Portuguese
### Verb

yr (first-person singular present indicative vou, past participle ydo)
* Obsolete spelling of ir.

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -yːr

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

yr
* dizzy
* lively, jolly, skittish

##### Inflection

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

##### Related terms

* yra
* yrsel
* yrvaken

##### Further reading

* yr in Svensk ordbok.
* yr in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

yr
* present indicative of yra
* imperative of yra

### Anagrams

* ry.

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ər/

### Article

yr
* Alternative form of y (used before a word starting with a vowel or h)

### Particle

yr
* Alternative form of y (used before a word starting with a vowel or h)