Eira

From Spanish eirá, connected to Guaraní eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of,[1] whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mustelidae – tayras, of tropical and subtropical forests of Central and South America.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Caniformia - suborder; Mustelidae - family; Mustelinae or Guloninae - subfamily

• (genus): Eira barbara (sole known species)

• Tayra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eira barbara on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Eira in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
• Eira at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Eira at Encyclopedia of Life
• Eira at National Center for Biotechnology Information

From an Old Norse goddess of medicine, Eir, eir (“relief”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈei̯rɑ/, [ˈe̞i̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -eirɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ei‧ra

Eira

1. a female given name
2. A neighborhood of Helsinki, the site of a hospital named for the Old Norse goddess.
3. a Finnish surname transferred from the given name

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.

• Eira is the 202^nd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 3,073 female individuals (and as a middle name to 457 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
• The surname Eira belongs to 78 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.