Yser
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (after French) /iːˈzɛə(ɹ)/, (after Dutch) /ˈaɪzə(ɹ)/
Proper noun
Yser
- A river that flows through French and West Flanders to the North Sea.
- 1986 November, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic[1], archived from the original on 18 July 2022:
- Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.