Jersey
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Gersey, from Anglo-Norman Gersui, further etymology disputed. Probably from Old Norse [Term?], compound of Geirs (“Geirr's”) + ey (“island”). Also occasionally and historically connected to Latin Caesarea, a common name given to locations conquered by the Romans in honor of Caesar (compare French Césarée). The latter theory still bestows the Latin translation of the island.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
- Hyphenation: Jer‧sey
Proper noun
[edit]Jersey
- A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
- 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 3, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN:
- The resilience of Jersey’s elite is not new (Jersey is perhaps the only place in Europe that had the same government before, during and after Nazi occupation) but it had never previously been described with such forensic force.
- A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
- An English earldom.
- (US, informal, especially following north or south) New Jersey.
- A town in Georgia, United States.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]island
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cattle
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New Jersey
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Noun
[edit]Jersey (plural Jerseys)
- A cow of the Jersey breed.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Jersey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey m
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey (genitive Jerseys)
- Jersey (island)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey f
- Jersey (island)
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey m
- Jersey (island)
- the letter J in the Italian spelling alphabet
- Synonym: Jesolo
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jersey in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey
- Jersey (island in the Channel Islands)
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[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey f
- Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)
Spanish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jersey f
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Jersey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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