óbyrja

Old Norse

Etymology

ó- (“un”) +‎ *byrja (“woman who gives birth”). Second element zero-grade agent noun formed to bera (“to carry; to bear (children)”).

Noun

óbyrja f (genitive óbyrju, plural óbyrjur)

1. infertile, barren woman

Declension

Declension of óbyrja (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	óbyrja	óbyrjan	óbyrjur	óbyrjurnar
accusative	óbyrju	óbyrjuna	óbyrjur	óbyrjurnar
dative	óbyrju	óbyrjunni	óbyrjum	óbyrjunum
genitive	óbyrju	óbyrjunnar	óbyrjna	óbyrjnanna

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “óbyrja”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press