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
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Noun
aurr m (genitive aurs, plural aurar)
- 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, […]
- 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:
Declension
Declension of aurr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Terms derived from aurr
Descendants
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.