nosþyrel

• næsþȳrel

From nosu (“nose”) +‎ þȳrel (“hole”). Cognate with Old Frisian nosterle (“nostril”).

Compare also Middle Low German noster, nüster (whence German Nüster), which is usually regarded as a different construct, however.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnosˌθyː.rel/

nosþȳrel n (nominative plural nosþȳrlu)

1. nostril
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Preface to Genesis"

     God ġesċōp ūs twā ēagan and twā ēaran, twā nosþȳrlu and twēġen weoloras, twā handa and twēġen fēt.

     God gave us two eyes and two ears, two nostrils and two lips, two hands and two feet.

• Middle English: nostrille, nostrelle
  • English: nostril
• Middle English: nosethirl, nosethrille, nosethurl, nosethrul, nosetherel, nosethrel, nosethorl, nosederl, nosetrel, nosesterl
  • English: nosethirl (archaic)

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “nos-þyrel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.