yra

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *irā (cf. Latvian ir, dialectal, archaic Latvian forms irād, iraid, irāg, which existed alongside *esti (cf. Old Church Slavonic ѥстъ (jestŭ), Russian есть (jestʹ), Lithuanian dialectal ẽsti, Old Prussian ast), initially with basically existential (“there is”) meaning, but later on extending to all copular meanings, thus replacing *esti. In Sudovian, also the first person form irm (“I am”) is derived from this stem. The origin of Proto-Balto-Slavic *irā is, however, unclear. Various sources have been proposed: an older interjection (cf. Lithuanian aurè (“look!”)), the particle and conjunction ir (“both... and...”), a noun with the meaning “existence, reality, thing”, or even (more recently) the Proto-Indo-European secondary third-person verbal ending *-r with a later -ā-extension.[1]

• IPA^(key): [iˈrɐ]

yrà

1. third-person singular present of būti
2. third-person plural present of būti

• nėra (negative form)

yr +‎ -a

yra (present yrar, preterite yrade, supine yrat, imperative yra)

1. rave (express oneself in a confused manner)

   Vad yrar han om? Är han full?

   What's with the confused nonsense he's spewing? Is he drunk?

yra c

1. frenzy, delirium

From ur (“drizzle”), as in i ur och skur. Cognate of Icelandic ýra.

yra (present yr, preterite yrde, supine yrt, imperative yr)

1. (snow) whirl

yra c

1. snowstorm

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

yra

1. inflection of yr:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• yra in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)