eyrir
See also: Eyrir
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Icelandic eyrir. Doublet of aureus.
NounEdit
eyrir (plural aurar)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse eyrir, from Latin aureus (“gold coin”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
DeclensionEdit
declension of eyrir
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *aurijaz, from Latin aureus (“gold coin”).
NounEdit
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
DeclensionEdit
Declension of eyrir (strong ija-stem)
SynonymsEdit
- fé (money, property, wealth)
DescendantsEdit
- Icelandic: eyrir
- Faroese: oyra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: øyre m
- Old Swedish: ø̄ri, ø̄re
- Swedish: öre
- Old Danish: øræ
- Gutnish: öre
- → Finnish: äyri
ReferencesEdit
- “eyrir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press