fyran

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *p(i)eh₂w (“to beat, hit”), and cognate with Lithuanian pjáuti (“to cut, reap”),[1] Latin paviō (“to beat, strike”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfyː.rɑn/

Verb

fȳran

  1. to castrate

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “pjauti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 360

Swedish

Noun

fyran

  1. definite singular of fyra
    Jag går i fyran ― I'm in fourth grade
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