eyrr
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]| feminine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | eyrr | eyrrin | eyrar | eyrarnar |
| accusative | eyri | eyrina | eyrar | eyrarnar |
| dative | eyri | eyrinni | eyrum | eyrunum |
| genitive | eyrar | eyrarinnar | eyra | eyranna |
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]- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “aura”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 42-43
Further reading
[edit]- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “eyrr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
- 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