írar

See also: Írar, irar, and iRaR

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Irish Ériu (“Ireland”), from Primitive Irish *Īweriū, from Proto-Celtic *Φīweryū (“Ireland”), from Proto-Indo-European *piHweryon-, from *piHwer- (“to swell”).

Noun

írar m pl

  1. Irishmen, the Irish

Declension

Declension of írar (weak an-stem, plural only)
masculine plural
indefinite definite
nominative írar írarnir
accusative íra írana
dative írum írunum
genitive íra íranna

Descendants

  • Icelandic: Íri
  • Faroese: íri
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ire
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ire
  • →? Old English: Īras

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “Írar”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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