Adverb

(er)

(dialectal) early

* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The winter had set in airly , and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1887, author=Homer Greene, title=Burnham Breaker, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Ye're up airly the mornin'. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Nellie L. McClung, title=Purple Springs, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="They're comin' airly ," said John Watson, slowly, as he shook down the bag of seed wheat that he had just filled; "but I guess they are the best judge of whether they can make a livin' outside any longer." }}