earslyre
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ears (“buttocks, ass”) + lȳre, the latter element presumably being a variant of līra ("brawn, muscle").
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]earslȳre m
Usage notes
[edit]- Assumed to be a masculine noun, based on the gender of the assumed source of the second element, līra. However, the actual gender is uncertain, as the word is only attested in a single gloss. If it is masculine, then the -e suffix in the nominative singular form would suggest a ja-stem noun (as shown in the declension table above), rather than an n-stem like līra.
Declension
[edit]Declension of earslȳre (strong ja-stem)
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “EARS-LYRE”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.