aurr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *auraz (“wet sand or earth, mud”). Cognate with Old English ēar and possibly Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌷𐌾𐍉𐌼 (aurahjōm), an inflection of an obscure Gothic word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑurː/

Noun

aurr m (genitive aurs, plural aurar)

1. moist earth, wet clay, mud
   • Grottasöngr, verse 15, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 203:

     […] aurr etr iljar, / en ofan kuldi, […]

     […] mud tears our feet, / frost freezes our forms, […]

Declension

  Declension of aurr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aurr	aurrinn	aurar	aurarnir
accusative	aur	aurinn	aura	aurana
dative	auri	aurinum	aurum	aurunum
genitive	aurs	aursins	aura	auranna

Derived terms

Terms derived from aurr

• aurigr (“muddy”)
• aurskór (“horseshoe”)

• aurskriða (“landslip”)
• aurvangr (“loamy field”)

Descendants

• Danish: ør c
• Faroese: eyrur m
• Icelandic: aur m

• Norwegian Bokmål: aur m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: aur m
• Swedish: ör c

References

• “aurr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aurr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• aurr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.