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From Middle English ere < Old English ēare
Singular ear
Plural ears
ear ( plural ears )
organ of hearing
slang: police informant
Old English ēar
fruiting body of a grain plant
Old English erian
to ear ( third-person singular simple present ears , present participle earing , simple past eared , past participle eared )
Infinitive to ear
Third person singular ears
Simple past eared
Past participle eared
Present participle earing
ear
Akin to Old Norse aur
ēar m
Common Germanic * ahiz , whence also Old High German ahir (German Ähre ), Old Saxon ahar (Dutch aar ), Old Norse ax . From a Proto-Indo-European root ak ('pointed'); compare Latin acus "needle"
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