eyra
See also: -eyra
English edit
Etymology edit
Native South American name. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
eyra (plural eyras)
- A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). Native South American name.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
eyra m (plural eyras)
Icelandic edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse eyra, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ous-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
eyra n (genitive singular eyra, nominative plural eyru)
- ear (organ of hearing)
- c. 1270s, Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
- Inn vari gestur
er til verðar kemur
þunnu hljóði þegir,
eyrum hlýðir,
en augum skoðar.
Svo nýsist fróðra hver fyrir.- The knowing guest
who goes to the feast,
In silent attention sits;
With his ears he hears,
with his eyes he watches,
Thus wary are wise men all.
- The knowing guest
- c. 1270s, Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
Declension edit
declension of eyra
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
eyra f
- indefinite genitive plural of eyri (“sandbank”)
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows- (“ear”). Compare Old Dutch, Old High German, and Old Saxon ōra, Old English ēare, Old Frisian āre, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍉 (ausō).
Noun edit
eyra n
Declension edit
Declension of eyra (weak an-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: eyra
- Faroese: oyra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: øyra, øyre
- Jamtish: ǿre
- Elfdalian: ära
- Old Swedish: ø̄ra
- Old Danish: ø̄ræ
- Old Gutnish: oyra
- Gutnish: åire
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
eyra f (genitive eyru)
- Alternative form of eyrr
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
eyra
References edit
- eyra in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.