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Ger vs Jer - What's the difference?

ger | jer |

As nouns the difference between ger and jer

is that ger is a yurt while jer is ultra-short or reduced vowel in Proto- and Late Common Slavonic (or Slavic), then represented as ъ (back jer [ŭ]) or ь (front jer [ĭ]).

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.

    • Anagrams

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    jer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) Ultra-short or reduced vowel in Proto- and Late Common Slavonic (or Slavic), then represented as ?' (back jer [?]) or ' ? (front jer [?]).

    • See also

    * Yer * Yery

    Anagrams

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