eimyrja

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse eimyrja, from Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”).

Noun

eimyrja f (genitive singular eimyrju, no plural)

embers

Declension

declension of eimyrja

	indefinite	definite
f-w1	singular
nominative	eimyrja	eimyrjan
accusative	eimyrju	eimyrjuna
dative	eimyrju	eimyrjunni
genitive	eimyrju	eimyrjunnar

Further reading

“eimyrja” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”).

Noun

eimyrja f (genitive eimyrju, plural eimyrjur)

embers

Declension

Declension of eimyrja (weak jōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
feminine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	eimyrja	eimyrjan	eimyrjur	eimyrjurnar
accusative	eimyrju	eimyrjuna	eimyrjur	eimyrjurnar
dative	eimyrju	eimyrjunni	eimyrjum	eimyrjunum
genitive	eimyrju	eimyrjunnar	eimyrja	eimyrjanna

Related terms

eimr
ím

Descendants

Icelandic: eimyrja
Faroese: eimyrja
Norwegian Nynorsk: eimyrja, eimyrje
Swedish: mörja

References

“eimyrja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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