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Dere vs Yere - What's the difference?

dere | yere |

As a noun dere

is door.

As an adjective dere

is bitter.

As a pronoun yere is

(irish) your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye.

dere

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dere, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Hurt; harm; injury.
    • She did him dere .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) deren, derien, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (der)
  • To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
  • * c.1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
    • And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere .
  • * :
    • Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /
  • To annoy, trouble, grieve.
    • Derived terms
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    yere

    English

    Pronoun

  • (Irish) your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye
  • * 2001 Martin McDonagh The Lieutenant of Inishmore , Scene 8:
    • What I want ye to remember, as the bullets come out through yere foreheads, is
  • * 2012 Kerry O'Shea Edinburgh’s Fringe festival thinks The Rubberbandits are English IrishCentral 27 July 2012:
    • The Rubberbandits took to their Twitter (@Rubberbandits) on Tuesday in the wake of the Fringe fest’s apparent typo saying that, “@edfringe As much as we'd love to swear allegiance to Lizzie. Could ye change our country of origin from "England" to Ireland on yere site?” (sic)
  • * 2012 Christy O'Connor " The first great rivalry of the 21st century" Irish Independent , 28 July 2012:
    • "I've been listening to yere' s**** there all day about how great ye are," he told them. "Who the hell do ye think ye are with ' yere two All-Irelands and one ambush?"

    Usage notes

    Especially in the south and west of Ireland. The yod-dropping pronunciation is more dialectal. ----