gyr

See also: Gyr

English

Noun

gyr (plural gyrs)

  1. Short for gyrfalcon.

Spanish

Noun

gyr m (plural gyrs)

  1. Gyr (breed of cattle)

Sudovian

Etymology

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

gyr

  1. nature reserve, primeval forest
    • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 212, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
      matecznik — gyr
      matecznik — nature reserve

See also

References
  1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 73: “gyr ‘neįžengiama giria, draustinis, l. matecznik’ 212.”
  2. “girià” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. gyr s. ‘dichter Wald’”.

Welsh

Etymology

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

gyr m (plural gyrroedd)

  1. (obsolete) drive, thrust
  2. flock, drove
    Synonyms: diadell, praidd, haid

Derived terms

Mutation
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.
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