eyrr

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, page 42-43