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Icelandic
Etymology
Coined by Director General of public health Vilmundur Jónsson in 1955 based on feyra (“putridness, mustiness; decay”).
Pronunciation
Noun
veira f (genitive singular veiru, nominative plural veirur)
- virus (DNA/RNA causing disease)
- computer virus
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References
- Sapir, Yair, Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2008) “Icelandic: Phonosemantic matching”, in Judith Rosenhouse & Rotem Kowner, editors, Globally speaking: Motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages, Clevedon-Buffalo-Toronto: Multilingual Matters, pages 19–43