Noun: ember
| Singular | ember |
| Plural | embers |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like ember
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, from Proto-West Germanic *aimuʀjā, from Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ, a compound of *aimaz + *uzjǭ. The latter is from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”). The b is intrusive and was added in English for ease of pronunciation when the vowel of the second syllable (y) disappeared.
2. See also Old High German eimuria (“pyre”), Danish emmer, Swedish mörja (“embers”). See: Middle English Nouns '
embre', Old English Nouns '
ǣmyrġe', Swedish Nouns '
mörja'.
Verbs referencing "ember"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
eimyrje.