jer

Pronunciation: /jɛə/

The English word “jer” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

either of the Proto-Slavic lax vowels /ɪ/ (front jer, ь) and /ʊ/ (back jer, ъ), which in Late Common Slavic were reduced in certain positions to ultrashort vowels [ɪ̆] and [ʊ̆] (weak jers) and then eventually lost.

From Russian ер (jer) or ерь (jerʹ).

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