FromProto-Indo-European*h₃eros(“elevated”).
heri
- onamountain
heri
- indefiniteaccusativeplural ofher
FromLatinheri.
heri
- yesterday
heri
- Rōmaji transcription ofへり
Probably a remodelling ofhere <Proto-Italic*hezi with the o-stem locative ending ofdomī, afterwards affected byiambic shortening. Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*dʰǵʰyés.
herī̆ (notcomparable)
- yesterday
- (antonym(s) of“tomorrow”):crās
- Balkan Romance:
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- Borrowings:
- “heri”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “heri”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “heri”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive
FromProto-West Germanic*hari, see alsoOld Englishhere,Old Norseherr.
heri n orm
- army
Dative pluralheriun
Related to the voiced Verner alternant ofProto-Germanic*hasô.
heri m
- hare
- “heri”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “heri”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “heri”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page194; also available at theInternet Archive
FromDutchheel.
heri
- complete,full,whole
heri
- very
Borrowed fromArabicخَيْر(ḵayr).
heri classIX (pluralheri classX)
- happiness,good (things)
- kila la heri ―all the best
- kheri ya sikukuu yako ya kuzaliwa ―happy birthday (literally, “happiness of your holiday of birthing”)
heri
- better(when beginning a clause, "it is better that...")
