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1. ð, eira in Ld. 204, Fms. vii. 244. Sturl. i. 72, iii. 103, is evidently the same word, ei = æ, and different from eira, to spare: [from ár = an oar]:—to row, pull; æra undan e-m, æra verðr með árum undan dólga fundi, Skálda (in a verse); rétt er at flýja ok undan at æra, Post. (Unger) 242; see eira, p. 123.
2. ð, [ár = a year], to give a good crop, impers.; því veldr ár at ærir akr (acc.) búmanna spakra, Skálda (in a verse).
3. u, f. [a borrowed word; A. S. âre; O. H. G. êra; mod. Germ. ehre; Dan. ære]:—an honour; the word, appears first about the end of the 13th century; Guði til æru, N. G. L. ii. 469; lof ok æra, MS. 302. 169; lof ok dýrð, heiðr ok æra, Magn. 428; engrar æru verðr, Fas. iii. 430; sæmd ok æra, Mar.
2. in mod. usage also as a law phrase, a civil honour or privilege: in the Middle Ages a person could be sentenced to lose his ‘æra,’ a kind ot civil or social outlawry, cp. Gr. ἀτιμία; hann misti æruna, var dæmdr ærulaus.
4. ð, to honour; æra ok sæma, Norske Saml. v. 133.