hyrr

See also: hýrr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hurja- (“burning coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *krh₃-io-, *kerh₃- (“to burn”), from which also Lithuanian kárštas (“hot”), Latin carbo (“coal”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, “coal”). Also see *harstijan (“to roast”) and *herþ (“hearth”).

Noun

hyrr m (genitive hyrjar)

1. (poetic) fire
   1. (in kennings) sword

      hyrr hjaldrs

      the fire of battle [SWORD]

Declension

  Declension of hyrr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hyrr	hyrrinn	hyrir	hyrirnir
accusative	hyr	hyrinn	hyri	hyrina
dative	hyr	hyrinum	hyrjum	hyrjunum
genitive	hyrjar	hyrjarins	hyrja	hyrjanna

References

• “hyrr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hurja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 258