írar

See also: irar and iRaR

Old Norse

Etymology

From Old Irish Ériu (“Ireland”).

Noun

írar m pl

Irishmen, the Irish

Declension

Declension of írar, (weak an-stem, plural only)

masculine	plural
masculine	indefinite	definite
nominative	írar	írarnir
accusative	íra	írana
dative	írum	írunum
genitive	íra	íranna

Related terms

Írland
írska f (“the Irish tongue”)
írskr (“Irish”)

Descendants

Icelandic: Íri
Faroese: íri
Norwegian Nynorsk: ire
Norwegian Bokmål: ire
→ Old English: Īras

References

Írar in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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