From Spanish eirá, connected to Guaraní eíra (“honey”), a food the animal is fond of, whence also Portuguese papa-mel, another vernacular name.)
Eira f
From an Old Norse goddess of medicine, Eir, eir (“relief”).
Eira
Inflection of Eira (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Eira | Eirat | ||
genitive | Eiran | Eirojen | ||
partitive | Eiraa | Eiroja | ||
illative | Eiraan | Eiroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Eira | Eirat | ||
accusative | nom. | Eira | Eirat | |
gen. | Eiran | |||
genitive | Eiran | Eirojen Eirainrare | ||
partitive | Eiraa | Eiroja | ||
inessive | Eirassa | Eiroissa | ||
elative | Eirasta | Eiroista | ||
illative | Eiraan | Eiroihin | ||
adessive | Eiralla | Eiroilla | ||
ablative | Eiralta | Eiroilta | ||
allative | Eiralle | Eiroille | ||
essive | Eirana | Eiroina | ||
translative | Eiraksi | Eiroiksi | ||
abessive | Eiratta | Eiroitta | ||
instructive | — | Eiroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.