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English
Noun
gyr (plural gyrs)
- Short for gyrfalcon.
Spanish
Noun
gyr m (plural gyrs)
- Gyr (breed of cattle)
Sudovian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to elevate”). Cognate with Lithuanian girià (“primeval forest”), Latvian dziŗa (“woods”), dzire, Old Prussian garian (“tree”).
Noun
gyr
- nature reserve, primeval forest
See also
References
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, number 1, page 73: “gyr ‘neįžengiama giria, draustinis, l. matecznik’ 212.”
- ^ “girià” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. gyr s. ‘dichter Wald’”.
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh gyr, from Proto-Celtic *(fare)-koro (“shot, blow”), ultimately from the root of Old Irish foceird (“to cast, throw”); see there for details.
Noun
gyr m (plural gyrroedd)
- (obsolete) drive, thrust
- flock, drove
- Synonyms: diadell, praidd, haid
Derived terms
Mutation