eyrr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aurī, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ouh₁-ro-, with unexpected o-grade. Related to aurr (“mud, moist earth”).[1]

Noun

eyrr f (genitive eyrar, dative eyri, plural eyrar)

  1. a gravel bank

Declension
  Declension of eyrr (strong ijō-stem)
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
  • 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
  • “eyrr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 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
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “aura”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 42-43
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