eyrr
Old Norse
Etymology
Related to aurr (“mud, moist earth”)
Noun
eyrr f (genitive eyrar, dative eyri, plural eyrar)
Declension
Declension of eyrr (strong ijō-stem)
Descendants
- Danish: ør c
- English: ayre (via Norn)
- Faroese: oyri f
- Icelandic: eyri f
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- Norwegian Nynorsk: øyr f
- Scottish Gaelic: tiurr
- Swedish: ör c
References
- “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