eyrir
See also: Eyrir
English edit
Etymology edit
From Icelandic eyrir. Doublet of aureus.
Noun edit
eyrir (plural aurar)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna
Translations edit
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse eyrir, from Latin aureus (“gold coin”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
eyrir m (genitive singular eyris, nominative plural aurar)
- A subdivision of currency, one hundredth of an Icelandic króna, Swedish krona or Danish or Norwegian krone.
Declension edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *aurijaz, from Latin aureus (“gold coin”).
Noun edit
eyrir m (genitive eyris, plural aurar)
- an ounce (usually of silver); equivalent to an eighth of a mark (mǫrk) or sixty pennies (penningar)
- (uncountable, in the singular or in the plural) money
Declension edit
Declension of eyrir (strong ija-stem)
Synonyms edit
- fé (money, property, wealth)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: eyrir
- Faroese: oyra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: øyre m
- Old Swedish: ø̄ri, ø̄re
- Swedish: öre
- Old Danish: øræ
- Gutnish: öre
- → Finnish: äyri
References edit
- “eyrir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press