Noun: eir
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like eir
antiklimaks,
symbol,
system,
sysken,
kroppsvev,
snøras,
sexliv,
sekret,
senter,
samråd,
samvit,
samvær,
samløp,
mikrosekund,
sesongkort,
sovjet,
solbær,
sjøfly,
sjøliv,
sirkus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse eir n, from Proto-Germanic *aiz n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos n (“copper, bronze”). Germanic cognates include English ore, German ehern, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz) and Danish ir. Indo-European cognates include Latin aes and Sanskrit अयस् (ayas). See: Old Norse Nouns '
eir', English Nouns '
ore', Gothic Nouns '
𐌰𐌹𐌶', Danish Nouns '
ir', Latin Nouns '
aes'.
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