gyr
See also: Gyr
English edit
Noun edit
gyr (plural gyrs)
- Short for gyrfalcon.
Spanish edit
Noun edit
gyr m (plural gyrs)
- Gyr (breed of cattle)
Sudovian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to elevate”). Cognate with Lithuanian girià (“primeval forest”), Latvian dziŗa (“woods”), dzire, Old Prussian garian (“tree”).[1][2]
Noun edit
gyr
- nature reserve, primeval forest
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 212, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, number 1, page 73: “gyr ‘neįžengiama giria, draustinis, l. matecznik’ 212.”
- ^ “girià” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. gyr s. ‘dichter Wald’”.
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh gyr, from Proto-Celtic *(fare)-koro (“shot, blow”), ultimately from the root of Old Irish foceird (“to cast, throw”); see there for details.
Noun edit
gyr m (plural gyrroedd)
Derived terms edit
- gyrru (“to drive”)
Mutation edit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| gyr | yr | ngyr | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||