órar

See also: orar and ørar

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse órar (“fits of madness (plural)”), from Proto-Germanic *wōrō, related to Proto-Germanic *wōrijaz (“intoxicated”) (whence English weary).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈouːrar/

Noun

órar m pl (plural only, genitive plural óra)

fantasy, delusion

Declension

Declension of *órar* (pl-only masculine)
	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	órar	órarnir
accusative	óra	órana
dative	órum	órunum
genitive	óra	óranna

Related terms

ær

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wōrja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593: “*wōrō-”

Further reading

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

Old Norse

Determiner

órar

feminine nominative/accusative plural of órr