superjaro

Esperanto

Etymology

From super (“above”) +‎ jaro (“year”), probably as a mistaken calque of Yiddish עיבור־יאָר (iber-yor, “leap year”), where the first element is homophonous to איבער (iber, “over, above”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /superˈjaro/
  • Rhymes: -aro
  • Hyphenation: su‧per‧ja‧ro

Noun

superjaro (accusative singular superjaron, plural superjaroj, accusative plural superjarojn)

  1. leap year

Meronyms

References

  1. ^ Biró, Tamás (2004). "Weak Interactions: Yiddish influence in Hungarian, Esperanto and Modern Hebrew". In: On the Boundaries of Phonology and Phonetics. University of Groningen Department of Linguistics, Groningen, pp. 123-145.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.