fyrri

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse fyrri. === Adjective === fyrri former, first (of two) ==== Declension ==== ==== See also ==== seinni (later, last of two) == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *furi or *furai. === Adjective === fyrri (comparative fyrri, superlative fyrstr) (comparative) former, first (out of two) (superlative) the first, foremost ==== Inflection ==== This word is one of a little handful of adjectives with defective inflection, existing only in the comparative and superlative forms. ==== Antonyms ==== hindri (comparative), hinztr (superlative) síðarri (comparative), síðastr (superlative) ==== Related terms ==== fyrir fyrr ==== Descendants ==== Faroese: fyrri Norwegian Bokmål: førre Norwegian Nynorsk: førre; fyrre (dated) Old Swedish: fyrre Swedish: förra Old Danish: førræ, fyrræ Danish: førre (obsolete) === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fyrri”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fyrstr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive “fyrri” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.