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Ayre¹

Where it comes from

From Old Norse eyrr (“gravel bank”).

proper noun

  1. A sheading in the north of the Isle of Man.

Ayre²

Where it comes from

English and Scottish surname, variant of Ayer.

proper noun Ayres

  1. A surname.

ayre³

Where it comes from

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

noun ayres

  1. A narrow bar of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a sandbank.

ayre⁴

noun ayres

  1. archaic Archaic spelling of air 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.

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"ayre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ayre. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"ayre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ayre.

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@misc{ayre_2026,
  title = {ayre},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ayre},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}