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Ayre

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A sheading in the north of the Isle of Man.
  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A narrow bar of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a sandbank.
  2. 2
    Archaic spelling of air. alt-of, archaic

    "It is precisely to this—not destruction, but dissolution—(for dissolve is the poet's word) this melting into thin ayre, of the world itself, that Tooke maintains the word rack, i. e. reek, to be most- appropriate. And I think he was right in so doing."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old Norse eyrr (“gravel bank”).

Etymology 2

English and Scottish surname, variant of Ayer.

Etymology 3

From an unattested Norn word, from Old Norse eyrr. Compare Icelandic eyri, Norwegian øyr.

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