eyrir

From Icelandic eyrir. Doublet of aureus, öre, øre, and oyra.

eyrir (plural aurar)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Icelandic króna

From Old Norse eyrir, from Latin aureus (“gold coin”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈeiːrɪr]
• Rhymes: -eiːrɪr
• Homophone: eirir

eyrir m (genitive singular eyris, nominative plural aurar)

1. a subdivision of currency, one hundredth of an Icelandic króna, Swedish krona or Danish or Norwegian krone

From Proto-Germanic *aurijaz, from Latin aureus (“gold coin”).

eyrir m (genitive eyris, plural aurar)

1. an ounce (usually of silver); equivalent to an eighth of a mark (mǫrk) or sixty pennies (penningar)
2. (uncountable, in the singular or in the plural) money

• fé (money, property, wealth)

• Icelandic: eyrir
• Faroese: oyra
• Norwegian Nynorsk: øyre m
• Old Swedish: ø̄ri, ø̄re
  • Swedish: öre
• Old Danish: øræ
  • Danish: øre
    • Norwegian Bokmål: øre
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: øre
• Gutnish: öre
• → Finnish: äyri

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