jer

plural jers

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of jerfalcon.

plural jers · alternative yer

1. human sciencesTwo historical Slavic vowels and their corresponding Cyrillic and Glagolitic letters; the vowels were short (possibly ultrashort), and possibly reduced. They were front jer (ь, Ⱏ) and back jer (ъ, Ⱐ). During the development of Slavic languages in certain positions they underwent weakening and were lost (weak jers), and elsewhere retained (strong jers).

   In an example like *sъnъ ‘dream’ the first jer was strong and the second one weak

   2024, Irena Sawicka, “Vocalism: The Vowels”, in Danko Šipka, Wayles Browne, editors, The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 31

   2 more examples

   In final position after consonants jers are to be reconstructed for all words, except a few prepositions and prefixes

   1964, George Y. Shevelov, A Prehistory of Slavic: The Historical Phonology of Common Slavic, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 433

   The irregularities in the use of the jers in the [manuscripts] reflect dialectal developments which are part of the history of the Bulgarian and Macedonian languages.

   1984, Sunray Cythna Gardiner, Old Church Slavonic: An Elementary Grammar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 23

1. diminutiveDiminutive of Jeremy.