eyrr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *aurī, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ouh₁-ro-, with unexpected o-grade. Related to aurr (“mud, moist earth”).[1]
Noun[edit]
eyrr f (genitive eyrar, dative eyri, plural eyrar)
Declension[edit]
Declension of eyrr (strong ijō-stem)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: eyri f
- Faroese: oyri f
- Norwegian Nynorsk: øyr f
- → Norwegian Bokmål: øyr m or f
- Swedish: ör c
- Danish: ør c
- Norwegian Bokmål: ør m or f
- ⇒ English: ayre (via Norn)
- ⇒ Scots: air (Etym 5)
- → Scottish Gaelic: tiùrr
References[edit]
- “eyrr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “aura”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 42-43