hyr

From Proto-Brythonic *hir, from Proto-Celtic *sīros.

• IPA^(key): [hiːɹ]

hyr

1. long

• IPA^(key): /hɪːr/

  Rhymes: -ɪːr

hyr m (genitive singular hyrs or hyrjar, no plural)

1. (poetic) fire

• (fire): eldur, funi, bál

hyr

1. Alternative form of hire

hyr

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

hyr

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir(e), pron (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

hyr

1. imperative of hyra

From Proto-Germanic *hūzijō (“hire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kūs- (“price, hire”). Cognate with Old Frisian hēre (“hire”), Old Saxon hūria (“lease, rent”), Middle High German behūren (“to acquire by purchase or lease”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhyːr/

hȳr f

1. hire, wages
2. interest, usury

• hȳrling
• hȳreborg
• hȳrġeoht
• hȳriġmann
• hȳriġmann
• hȳrmann
• hȳroxa

• hȳran, hȳrian
• hȳra

• Middle English: hure, huire, huyre, hyre, here, hire
  • English: hire
  • Scots: hyr, hyre

• Rhymes: -yːr

hyr

1. present tense of hyra.
2. imperative of hyra.