bylur

Icelandic

From Old Norse bylr, byl (“gust of wind, squall”), from a Proto-Germanic root related to *blēaną (“to blow”).

bylur m (genitive singular byls or byljar, nominative plural byljir)

declension of bylur

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
m-s2	singular		plural
nominative	bylur	bylurinn	byljir	byljirnir
accusative	byl	bylinn	bylji	byljina
dative	byl	bylnum	byljum	byljunum
genitive	byls / byljar	bylsins / byljarins	bylja	byljanna

Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 372, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 372
Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 83

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