yearless

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adjective

Of a date, omitting the year.

OriginProto-Germanic *lausaz ← Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- ← English year →
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Meanings

adjectiveyearless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a date, omitting the year.

    The anniversary date is yearless (for example, July 30), while inception and expiration dates (July 30, 2005) change with each renewal.

    2002, Eric A. Wiening, Foundations of Risk Management and Insurance, Malvern, Pa. : American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters/Insurance Institute of America, →ISBN, page 288
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    A search returns an old poem lingering online, sexual, insistent, alive, still singing the languor of May and some yearless first day of June […]

    2007, Emily Schultz, Songs for the Dancing Chicken, Toronto : ECW Press, →ISBN, page 124

    […] it was a sandstone marker belonging to Yehoshuah ben David Ha-Cohen, whose dates had been abrased yearless though the rest was still legible […]

    2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers: A Novel, London Harvill Secker, →ISBN, page 122

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yeh₁-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*yóh₁r̥
  3. Proto-Germanic*jērą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*jār
  5. Old Englishġēar
  6. Middle Englishyeer
  7. Englishyear
  8. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  10. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  11. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  12. Englishyearless

From year + -less.

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Chicago

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