# æra
## English
### Noun

æra (plural æras)
* Archaic spelling of era.
** 1798, Pierre Simon La Place, “Exposition du Système du Monde [On the System of the World]”, in The Monthly Review, new and improved‎, →ISBN, page 500:It is desirable that all people should adopt one and the same æra, independant of moral revolutions, and founded solely on astronomical phænomena.
** 1892, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: George Bell and Sons, page 5:In the fourth century of our æra we find this word made plural, and even feminine, and used as the equivalent of Parcæ.

### Anagrams

* Aare, area

## Danish
### Noun

æra c (singular definite æraen, plural indefinite æraer)
* era

#### Inflection
## Faroese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

æra f (genitive singular æru, uncountable)
* honor (UK, honour)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* "æra" at Sprotin.fo

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaiːra/
    Rhymes: -aiːra

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

æra f (genitive singular æru, nominative plural ærur)
* reputation, honour

##### Derived terms

* uppreisn æru
* ærulaus
* ærumeiðandi
* ærumeiðing
* æruverður

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse œra.

#### Verb

æra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ærði, supine ært)
* to drive crazy [with accusative]

##### Derived terms

* ærandi

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

æra
* inflection of ær:
** masculine accusative plural
** feminine accusative singular

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Latin aera.

#### Noun

æra m (definite singular æraen, indefinite plural æraer, definite plural æraene)
* era

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* æren

#### Noun

æra m sg or f sg
* definite feminine singular of ære

### Etymology 3
#### Alternative forms

* æret

#### Verb

æra
* simple past of ære
* past participle of ære

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Latin aera.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæː.rɑ/

#### Noun

æra m (definite singular æraen, indefinite plural æraer or æraar, definite plural æraene or æraane)
* an era
    ein æra er forbi ― an era is over

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse æra (noun and verb).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²æː.rɑ/

#### Noun

æra f (plural æra)
* definite singular of ære
* (pre-2012) alternative form of ære

#### Verb

æra (present tense ærar, past tense æra, past participle æra, passive infinitive ærast, present participle ærande, imperative æra/ær)
* alternative form of ære

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse æra. In an umlaut relationship with år (“year”).

#### Verb

æra (present tense ærer, past tense ærte, past participle ært, passive infinitive ærast, present participle ærande, imperative ær)
* alternative form of ære

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæː.rɑ/

#### Noun

æra f
* definite singular of ær

### References

* “æra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Æ-ar, æ-ar

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German ēre, from Old Saxon ēra (“honour, renown, glory”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu (“honour; respect, reverence”), from Proto-Germanic *aizō (“fear, reverence; glory”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oys-éh₂, from *h₂eys- (“to respect”). Doublet of eir.

#### Noun

æra f (genitive æru)
* honour

##### Descendants

* Danish: ære
* Icelandic: æra
* Faroese: æra
* Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
* Norwegian Bokmål: ære
* Swedish: ära

### Etymology 2

In an umlaut relationship with ár f (“oar”).

#### Verb

æra
* (intransitive) to row, pull
    Synonym: róa

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3

In an umlaut relationship with ár n (“year”).

#### Verb

æra
* (impersonal) to cause to yield a good crop [with accusative ‘something, e.g. a field’] (idiomatically translated as "yield a good crop, become fertile" with the accusative object as the subject)
    ærir akr ― the field becomes fertile

##### Descendants

* Norwegian Nynorsk: æra, ære

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “æra”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 524; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/524 Internet Archive]

## Old Swedish
### Verb

æra
* third-person plural present indicative of vara