| 释义 |
jer|jɛr|
Also ier, yeer, yer(r). Pl. jers, jery.
[ad. OSl. jerŭ and jerĭ, Russ. er (pl. érȳ) and er´.]
The name of either member of the pairs of characters ⱏ, ⱐ and ъ, ь of the Slavonic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, sometimes distinguished according to their Slavonic names as jerŭ (yerŭ, jer) and jerĭ (yerĭ, jer´) respectively; one or both of the sounds represented by these characters, or the Common Slavonic sounds from which they developed. Also attrib. (jerek, yerek in quots. 1861, 1883, referring to the second member of each pair, are from the deriv. seen in Russ. érik.)
1763W. Massey Origin & Progress of Letters (tables facing 114) Yerr... Yeer.. ier. 1861Grammatography Based on the German compilation of F. Ballhorn 58 (table) Jer... Jerek. Ibid. 61 (table) Yerr... Yer. 1883I. Taylor Alphabet II. 196 (table) Yer... Yerek. 1949Archivum Linguisticum I. 158 The left-to-right characters, viz. jestŭ, kako, onŭ, ukŭ, and the left-inclined, jerŭ and jerĭ..are significant. 1949Entwistle & Morison Russian & Slavonic Languages 66 Peter the Great's Russian ‘civil alphabet’..retained the two jers which had no longer an alphabetical value. Ibid. 82 In Russian the jers continued to be distinguished as back/front vowels, and so developed into the open vowels o/e respectively. 1952Word VIII. 323 Leskien..thought that the spellings indicated a change in the quality of the consonant preceding the jer-letter. Ibid. 325 The category of jer-phonemes had been sharply reduced as to occurrence. 1955H. G. Lunt Old Church Slavonic Gram. 30 A jer is weak in a syllable followed directly by a non-reduced vowel or pause... A jer is strong only in a syllable directly before a weak jer... When the jers were lost as a category, the weak jers simply disappeared, and the strong jers were replaced by another vowel. 1969Language XLV. 558 The rule specifying sequences of obstruents as fricative + stop was eliminated by the time the jers were lost. |