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byrr
byrr
Old Norse
Noun
byrr
m
a
fair wind
Descendants
Icelandic:
byrr
References
byrr
in Geir T. Zoëga
(1910)
A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic
, Oxford
:
Clarendon Press
Etymology
From
Proto-Germanic
*buriz
(
“
favorable wind
”
)
. Cognate with Old English
byre
.
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