aurr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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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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  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɑurː/

Noun

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aurr m (genitive aurs, plural aurar)

  1. 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, []
    • Vǫluspá, verse 19, lines 1-4, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 4:
      Ask veit ek standa / heitir Yggdrasill
      hár baðmr, ausinn / hvíta auri; []
      I know an ash stands / named Yggdrasill
      a high tree, washed / with white mud; []

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: aur
  • Faroese: eyrur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: aur
    • Norwegian Bokmål: aur
  • Old Swedish: ø̄r
  • Danish: ør
  • Gutnish: aur

References

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  • 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.