byre
Old English
noun
Definitions
- child, son, descendant; young man, youth
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *buriz (favourable wind, favorable wind, son, male offspring, elevation, hill).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*buriz
Gloss
favourable wind, favorable wind, son, male offspring, elevation, hill
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
丘, 岡, 阜
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- birle English
- birler English
- birr English
- burgeon English
- burgeonest English
- burgeoneth English
- *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *buriz Proto-Germanic
- bir Middle English
- birlen Middle English
- burjon Middle English
- burr Old Norse
- byrr Old Norse
- bur Icelandic
- byrur Faroese
- bir Albanian
- 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂 Gothic
- *purjeh Proto-Finnic
- börfast Westrobothnian
- *bira Proto-Albanian