ayre
See also: Ayre
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From an unattested Norn word, from Old Norse eyrr. Compare Icelandic eyri, Norwegian øyr.
Noun edit
ayre (plural ayres)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ayre (plural ayres)
- Archaic spelling of air.
- 1856, Notes and Queries, page 425:
- It is precisely to this—not destruction, but dissolution—(for dissolve is the poet's word) this melting into thin ayre, of the world itself, that Tooke maintains the word rack, i. e. reek, to be most- appropriate. And I think he was right in so doing.
- 1870, Michael Drayton, Endimion and Phoebe: Ideas Latmus:
- ... Thus giues his sorrowes passage from his brest ; Sweet leaues (qd. he) which with the ayre doe tremble, Oh how your motions do my thoughts resemble, With that milde breath by which onely moue, Whisper my words in silence to my Loue ...
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áyre (Basahan spelling ᜀᜌ᜔ᜍᜒ)
Ladino edit
Etymology edit
From Old Spanish ayre, from Latin āer, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).
Noun edit
ayre m (Latin spelling)
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin āer, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).
Pronunciation edit
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ayre m (plural ayres)
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Scots edit
Noun edit
ayre (plural ayres)
References edit
- “ayre, n.4” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.