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ér

Pronunciation: [ˈeːr]

“ér” is a Hungarian word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. blood vessel (artery, vein, or capillary)
  2. vein (a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle)
  3. brook, streamlet, rill

verb

  1. to reach (a place), arrive, get somewhere (lative suffixes)
  2. to touch something (lative suffixes)
  3. to reach, stretch, extend as far as something (-ig) (to be long or deep or high enough)
  4. to hit, strike, afflict someone; meet with, be faced with something (of a disaster or sometimes luck)
  5. to catch someone (to discover unexpectedly; to surprise)
  6. to be able to use something (-val/-vel) meaningfully, to be of use to someone
  7. to be worth something
  8. to count, to be fair (to be legal according to the rules of a game)

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *särä. Cognates include Northern Mansi та̄р (tār, “root”).

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