yra

See also: ýra, and þrá

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *irā (cf. Latvian ir, dialectal, archaic Latvian forms irād, iraid, irāg, which existed alongside *esti (cf. Old Church Slavonic ѥстъ (jestŭ), Russian есть (jestʹ), Lithuanian dialectal ẽsti, Old Prussian ast), initially with basically existential (“there is”) meaning, but later on extending to all copular meanings, thus replacing *esti. In Sudovian, also the first person form irm (“I am”) is derived from this stem. The origin of Proto-Baltic *irā is, however, unclear. Various sources have been proposed: an older interjection (cf. Lithuanian aurè (“look!”)), the particle and conjunction ir (“both... and...”), a noun with the meaning “existence, reality, thing”, or even (more recently) the Proto-Indo-European secondary third-person verbal ending *-r with a later -ā-extension.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iˈrɐ]

Verb

yrà

1. third-person singular present of būti
2. third-person plural present of būti

Related terms

• nėra (negative form)

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Adjective

yra

1. (deprecated template usage) inflection of yr:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural