hyrr

See also: hýrr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hurja- (“burning coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *krh₃-io-, *kerh₃- (“to burn”), from which also Lithuanian kárštas (“hot”), Latin carbo (“coal”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹 (hauri, “coal”). Also see *harstijan (“to roast”) and *herþ (“hearth”).

Noun

hyrr m (genitive hyrjar)

  1. (poetic) fire
    1. (in kennings) sword
      hyrr hjaldrs
      the fire of battle [SWORD]

Declension
  Declension of hyrr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hyrr hyrrinn hyrir hyrirnir
accusative hyr hyrinn hyri hyrina
dative hyr hyrinum hyrjum hyrjunum
genitive hyrjar hyrjarins hyrja hyrjanna

References
  • “hyrr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hurja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 258
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