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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse bylr, byl (“gust of wind, squall”), from a Proto-Germanic root related to *blēaną (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bylur m (genitive singular byls or byljar, nominative plural byljir)
- snowstorm, blizzard
Declension
Declension of
bylur (
masculine, based on bylur)
Derived terms
References
- Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “372”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 372
- Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 83