Etymograph

English

lyrie

Lyrie comes from Icelandic hlýri ‘shoulder strap’.

  1. Icelandicmodernhlýri‘shoulder strap’
  2. Englishtodaylyrie

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Icelandicmodernhlýri‘shoulder strap’
  2. Englishtodaylyrie

Today it means

noun Agonus cataphractus, a European fish having the body covered with bony plates, and with three spines projecting in front of the nose.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Icelandic hlýri / lyrie