aurr

From Proto-Germanic *auraz (“wet sand or earth, mud”). Cognate with Old English ēar and possibly Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌷𐌾𐍉𐌼 (aurahjōm), an inflection of an obscure Gothic word.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɑurː/

aurr m (genitive aurs, plural aurar)

1. moist earth, wet clay, mud
   • Grottasöngr, verse 15, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 203:

     […] aurr etr iljar, / en ofan kuldi, […]

     […] mud tears our feet, / frost freezes our forms, […]

   • Vǫluspá, verse 19, lines 1-4, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 4:

     Ask veit ek standa / heitir Yggdrasill
     hár baðmr, ausinn / hvíta auri; […]

     I know an ash stands / named Yggdrasill
     a high tree, washed / with white mud; […]

• Icelandic: aur
• Faroese: eyrur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: aur
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: aur
• Old Swedish: ø̄r
  • Swedish: ör
• Danish: ør
• Gutnish: aur

• “aurr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aurr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• aurr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.