err

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɜː(ɹ)/, (rare) /ɛə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛɚ/, /ɝ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
• /ɜː(ɹ)/ Homophone: er
• /ɛə(ɹ)/ Homophones: air, are (unit of measurement), ayr, Ayr, e'er, ere, eyre, heir

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

1. (intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.

   He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.

   • 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation‎^[1], page 7:

     Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.

2. (intransitive) To sin.
3. (archaic) to stray.

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

err

1. Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).

   Err... what did you just say?

According to Orel, Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aurōra, Lithuanian aušrà).

Another theory links it to Proto-Indo-European *h₁régʷos. Cognate with Old Armenian երեկ (erek, “evening”), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, “dimness, darkness, mist”) and Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”).

err m

1. dark, darkness

• terr

• errem
• irë
• errësirë

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

n9	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	err	errið	err	errini
Accusative	err	errið	err	errini
Dative	erri	errinum	errum	errunum
Genitive	ers	ersins	erra	erranna

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrː]
• Hyphenation: err
• Rhymes: -ɛrː

err

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	err	errek
accusative	erret	erreket
dative	errnek	erreknek
instrumental	errel	errekkel
causal-final	errért	errekért
translative	erré	errekké
terminative	errig	errekig
essive-formal	errként	errekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	errben	errekben
superessive	erren	erreken
adessive	errnél	erreknél
illative	errbe	errekbe
sublative	erre	errekre
allative	errhez	errekhez
elative	errből	errekből
delative	erről	errekről
ablative	errtől	errektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	erré	erreké
non-attributive possessive - plural	erréi	errekéi

Possessive forms of err
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	errem	errjeim
2nd person sing.	erred	errjeid
3rd person sing.	errje	errjei
1st person plural	errünk	errjeink
2nd person plural	erretek	errjeitek
3rd person plural	errjük	errjeik

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

• r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ɛrː/

  Rhymes: -ɛrː

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R/r.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.