Etymograph

English

yar

Yar comes from Old English ġeorran ‘to sound, chatter, grunt, creak, grate’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- ‘to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰer-1‘to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*gerran1‘to creak’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġeorran1‘to sound, chatter, grunt, creak, grate’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500ȝaren1
  5. Englishtodayyar1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English yar

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰer-Wiktionary, English yar‘to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*gerranWiktionary, English yar‘to creak’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġeorranWiktionary, English yar‘to sound, chatter, grunt, creak, grate’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500ȝarenWiktionary, English yar
  5. EnglishtodayyarWiktionary, English yar

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- ‘to make a noise, rattle, gurgle, grumble’

grand, grill, greedy, grit, charismatic, growl, grime, chromatic, grout, grisly, ochre, grist, grimace, yearn, exhort, 17 more

Another origin of yar

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*garwaz‘ready, prepared’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*garu‘ready, prepared’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġearu‘ready’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500yar
  5. Englishtodayyar

Today it means

verb To snarl; to gnar.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “yar”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- / yar

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