írar

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See also: Írar, irar, and iRaR

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old Irish Ériu (“Ireland”), from Primitive Irish *Īweriū, from Proto-Celtic *Φīweryū (“Ireland”), from Proto-Indo-European *piHweryon-, from *piHwer- (“to swell”).

Noun[edit]

írar m pl

  1. Irishmen, the Irish

Declension[edit]

  Declension of írar, (weak an-stem, plural only)
masculine plural
indefinite definite
nominative írar írarnir
accusative íra írana
dative írum írunum
genitive íra íranna

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: Íri
  • Faroese: íri
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ire
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ire
  • →? Old English: Īras

References[edit]

  • “Írar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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