írar

See also: Írar, irar, and iRaR

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Irish Ériu (“Ireland”), from Primitive Irish *Īweriū, from Proto-Celtic *Φīweryū (“Ireland”), from Proto-Indo-European *piHweryon-, from *piHwer- (“to swell”).

Noun

írar m pl

1. Irishmen, the Irish

Declension

  Declension of írar, (weak an-stem, plural only)

masculine	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	írar	írarnir
accusative	íra	írana
dative	írum	írunum
genitive	íra	íranna

Related terms

• Írland
• írska f (“the Irish tongue”)
• írskr (“Irish”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: Íri
• Faroese: íri
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ire
• Norwegian Bokmål: ire
• →? Old English: Īras

References

• “Írar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press