English Online Dictionary. What means ears? What does ears mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪɹz/, /ɪəɹz/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪəz/, /ɪə(ɹ)z/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Noun
ears
- plural of ear
Derived terms
Verb
ears
- third-person singular simple present indicative of ear
Anagrams
- Sare, eras, arse, AREs, Sera, Ersa, ERAs, reas, Sear, sera, sear, RASE, SERA, rase, Ares, ares, ARSE, sare
Old English
Alternative forms
- ærs
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁orsos. Cognate with Old Frisian ers, Old Saxon ars, Old High German ars, Old Norse ars ~ rass, and more distantly with Old Armenian ոռ (oṙ, “ass”) and Modern Greek ουρά (ourá, “tail”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æ͜ɑrs/, [æ͜ɑrˠs]
Noun
ears m
- butt, arse
Declension
Strong a-stem:
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: ars, arce, ers, eres, hars, hers, aars
- English: arse, ass
- Scots: ers, airse