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eyra
English
Etymology
Native South American name.
Noun
eyra (plural eyras)
- A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas.
Anagrams
- Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, Yare, aery, ayre, y'are, yare, year
French
Etymology
From (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). Native South American name.
Noun
eyra m (plural eyras)
- (architecture) cougar, (Puma yagouaroundi eyra)
Icelandic
Etymology 1
From Old Norse eyra, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ous-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?eira/, [?ei?ra]
- Rhymes: -ei?ra
- Homophones: eira
Noun
eyra n (genitive singular eyra, nominative plural eyru)
- ear (organ of hearing)
- Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
- Inn vari gestur
- er til verðar kemur
- þunnu hljóði þegir,
- eyrum hlýðir,
- en augum skoðar.
- Svo nýsist fróðra hver fyrir.
- The knowing guest
- who goes to the feast,
- In silent attention sits;
- With his ears he hears,
- with his eyes he watches,
- Thus wary are wise men all.
- Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
Declension
Derived terms
- eyrnamergur
- skolleyru
Etymology 2
Noun
eyra f
- indefinite genitive plural of eyri (“sandbank”)
Old Norse
Etymology 1
From the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ows- (“ear”). Compare Old Dutch, Old High German, and Old Saxon ?ra, Old English ?are, Old Frisian ?re, Gothic ???????????????? (aus?).
Noun
eyra n
- (anatomy) ear
Declension
Descendants
- Icelandic: eyra
- Faroese: oyra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: øyra, øyre
- Norwegian Bokmål: øre
- Old Swedish: ø?ra
- Swedish: öra, öör
- Old Danish: ø?ræ
- Danish: øre
- Old Gutnish: oyra
- Gutnish: åire
- Scanian: ?ra
- Elfdalian: ära
- Westrobothnian: öir, aar, ooir, åir
Etymology 2
Noun
eyra f (genitive eyru)
- Alternative form of eyrr
Etymology 3
Noun
eyra
- indefinite genitive plural of eyrr
References
- eyra in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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eyre
English
Etymology
From Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /???/, /??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)
Noun
eyre (plural eyres)
- (Britain, law, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
Anagrams
- Eyer, Reye, eery, eyer, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere
Middle English
Noun
eyre
- Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)
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