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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *airuz. Cognate with Gothic airus (“messenger”).
Noun
árr m (genitive árar, plural ærir)
- messenger, servant
- c. 975, Þórbjǫrn dísarskáld, Poem about Þórr, verse 1
Þórr hefr Yggs með ǫ́rum
Ásgarð af þrek varðan.- Thor has mightily defended Asgard together with the messengers of Ygg .
- Hlǫðskviða stanza 30 (ed. Neckel/Kuhn, Die Lieder des Codex Regius, 5th edition, 1983):
Eigi scolom árom spilla, / þeim er fara einir saman.- We ought not to harm messengers who ride alone.
- (plural only, Christianity) angels
Declension
Declension of árr (strong u-stem)
Declension of árr (strong u-stem)
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References
- árr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.