aurr

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Noun

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
  Declension of aurr (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative aurr aurrinn aurar aurarnir
accusative aur aurinn aura aurana
dative auri aurinum aurum aurunum
genitive aurs aursins aura auranna

Derived terms
Terms derived from aurr
  • aurigr (“muddy”)
  • aurskór (“horseshoe”)
  • aurskriða (“landslip”)
  • aurvangr (“loamy field”)

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

References
  • “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.
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