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”). === Noun === eyrr f (genitive eyrar, dative eyri, plural eyrar) a gravel bank ==== Declension ==== ==== 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 === === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “eyrr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive 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