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Gern vs Ger - What's the difference?

gern | ger |

As a verb gern

is (obsolete) to grin.

As a noun ger is

january (month).

gern

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grin.
  • (obsolete) To yawn.
  • * Spenser
    • [He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .
    (Webster 1913) ----

    ger

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A yurt.
  • * 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 133:
    • The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger , and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (gerim)
  • A male convert to Judaism.

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