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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *p(i)eh₂w (“to beat, hit”), and cognate with Lithuanian pjáuti (“to cut, reap”),[1] Latin paviō (“to beat, strike”).
Pronunciation
Verb
fȳran
- to castrate
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “pjauti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 360
Swedish
Noun
fyran
- definite singular of fyra
- Jag går i fyran ― I'm in fourth grade