jer
Clipping of jerfalcon.
Noun abbreviation, alt of
- Clipping of jerfalcon.
Forms
Noun human sciences, linguistics
- 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.
Origin
From Russian ер (jer) or ерь (jerʹ).