Jersey
See also: jersey
English

Jersey cattle (2)
Etymology
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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
- Hyphenation: Jer‧sey
Proper noun
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) New Jersey.
- A town in Georgia, United States.
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Translations
island
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cattle
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New Jersey
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Further reading
Jersey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Jersey cattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Danish
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒɛʁ.zɛ/
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛr.si/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛrsi
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References
- Jersey in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Nynorsk
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Portuguese
Spanish
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Further reading
- “Jersey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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