eimyrja

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”).

Noun

eimyrja f (genitive eimyrju, plural eimyrjur)

1. embers

Declension

  Declension of eimyrja (weak jōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	eimyrja	eimyrjan	eimyrjur	eimyrjurnar
accusative	eimyrju	eimyrjuna	eimyrjur	eimyrjurnar
dative	eimyrju	eimyrjunni	eimyrjum	eimyrjunum
genitive	eimyrju	eimyrjunnar	eimyrja	eimyrjanna

Related terms

• eimr
• ím

Descendants

• Faroese: eimyrja

References

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