different between eyr vs eir

English

Noun

eyr

1. Obsolete spelling of air

Anagrams

• -ery, -yer, Rey, Rye, Yer, e'ry, rye, yer, yre

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

eyr

1. Alternative form of ere (“ear”)

Etymology 2

Noun

eyr

1. air

English

Etymology

Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing "th" from their.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: air, ere

Determiner

eir

1. (rare) Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:eir.

Synonyms

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Derived terms

• eirs; eirself

Anagrams

• -ier, Eri., IRE, IrE, Ire., Rie, ire, rei, rie

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse eir, from Proto-Germanic *aiz. Cognate with Faroese eir, Norwegian eir, Danish ir, Old English ?r (> English ore), Old High German ?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ei?r/
• Rhymes: -ei?r
• Homophone: Eir

Noun

eir m (genitive singular eirs, no plural) or eir n (genitive singular eirs, no plural)

1. (uncountable) copper; a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.

Declension

Masculine declension:

Neuter declension:

Synonyms

• kopar m

Derived terms

• eirgræna (synonymous spanskgræna, verdigris)

Middle Welsh

Verb

eir

1. impersonal present indicative of mynet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

eir n (definite singular eiret, indefinite plural eir, definite plural eira or eirene)

1. Alternative form of irr

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse eir n, from Proto-Germanic *aiz n, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éyos n (“copper, bronze”). Germanic cognates include English ore, German ehern, Gothic ???????????? (aiz) and Danish ir. Indo-European cognates include Latin aes and Sanskrit ???? (ayas).

Noun

eir n (definite singular eiret, indefinite plural eir, definite plural eira)

1. verdigris (especially on copper)

Derived terms

• eira, eire, eirast (verb)
• eirete
• eirgrøn

See also

• irr (Bokmål)

References

• “eir” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin h?r?s.

Noun

eir m (oblique plural eirs, nominative singular eirs, nominative plural eir)

1. heir

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: heir, aire
  • ? Middle English: heir
    • English: heir
    • Scots: heir
    • ? Welsh: aer
• French: hoir (obsolete)
• ? Middle Irish: eigre
  • Irish: oidhre
  • Manx: eirey
  • Scottish Gaelic: oighre

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiz n, from Proto-Indo-European *h?éyos n.

Noun

eir n

1. brass, copper

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

In several of the descendant languages, the meaning has shifted from copper to verdigris.

• Icelandic: eir m or n
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eir
• Swedish: ärg c
• Danish: ir c
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: irr n

See also

• Eir

References

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ir

Etymology

From Latin e?, ?re, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey-.

Verb

eir

1. (Surmiran) to go

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ei?r/

Verb

eir

1. (literary) impersonal present/future of mynd

Synonyms

• elir