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Jim vs Eric - What's the difference?

jim | eric |

As a noun jim

is jeem.

As a proper noun eric is

, cognate to eric.

jim

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • eric

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
  • * 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess , Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
  • The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

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