Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)yerEither of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.“For determining whether a yer is strong or weak, it is necessary to break the continuous flow of speech into individual words, or prosodic units (phrases which have only a single stressed syllable, and typically include a preposition or other clitic words).”