jersey

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English

Etymology

From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛrze/, /ˈd͡ʒɛrzɪ/, /ˈd͡ʒɛrzi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒøːzi/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeːzi/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛːzi/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
• Hyphenation: jer‧sey

Noun

jersey (countable and uncountable, plural jerseys)

1. (countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

   Synonym: jumper, pullover, sweater

2. (countable, US) A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.

   Synonyms: (Australian) guernsey, (UK) shirt

3. (uncountable) A type of fabric knit.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Catalan: jersei
• → French: jersey
• → Galician: xersei
• → Portuguese: jérsei
• → Spanish: jersey
• → Ukrainian: джерсі́ (džersí)

Translations

Further reading

• Jersey (clothing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

From English Jersey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒøːzi/ (in imitation of original pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjersey̯/, [ˈje̞rs̠e̞y̯] (Finnicized pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjersei̯/, [ˈje̞rs̠e̞i̯] (Finnicized pronunciation)

Noun

jersey

1. jersey (type of fabric knit)

   Synonym: jerseyneulos

Usage notes

• Many of the inflected forms are somewhat awkward to use, but corresponding forms of the synonymous jerseyneulos can be substituted for them.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “jersey”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.zɛ/

Noun

jersey m (plural jerseys)

1. jersey

Further reading

• “jersey”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• yérsey, yersi (Latin America)

Etymology

Borrowed from English jersey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xeɾˈsei/ [xeɾˈsei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei
• Syllabification: jer‧sey

Noun

jersey m (plural jerséis)

1. sweater, pullover

   Synonyms: suéter, chomba

Further reading

• “jersey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10