búfjáreyrir

Old Norse

Etymology

From búfé (“live stock”) +‎ eyrir (“money”).

Noun

búfjáreyrir m (genitive búfjáreyris, plural búfjáraurar)

  1. (uncountable, in the singular or in the plural) value in livestock

Declension

Declension of búfjáreyrir (strong ija-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative búfjáreyrir búfjáreyririnn búfjáraurar búfjáraurarnir
accusative búfjáreyri búfjáreyrinn búfjáraura búfjáraurana
dative búfjáreyri búfjáreyrinum búfjáraurum búfjáraurunum
genitive búfjáreyris búfjáreyrisins búfjáraura búfjárauranna

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “búfjáreyrir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 78; also available at the Internet Archive
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