- SÝR
- (gen. sýr, acc. and dat. sú, pl. sýr), f. sow; also as a nickname.* * *f., gen. sýr, acc. sú, pl. sýr (declined as kýr, q. v.); [A. S. sú; Engl. sow; Dan. so; Germ. san; Gr. ύς; Lat. sūs]:—a sow; sýr ok grísir með, Grág. i. 504; sú (acc.) ræða, 427; súr eru augu sýr (gen.), Skálda (Thorodd); the word is obsolete in prose.2. a nickname, Sigurðr sýr, gen. Sigurðar sýr, Fagrsk. 106; sýrar, v. l., also Fms. x. 405.II. one of the names of the goddess Freyja, in gen. Sýrar, Edda; á ek Sýrar mey dýra, Edda (in a verse); fólk-sýrar, Korm. (in a verse).
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.