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[4] œlir (m.) ‘feeder’: Or œlirr (ms. A has
‘ø̨lirr’).
A hap. leg. and an obscure word. It
could be related to the adj. œll ‘one
that deserves to be fed’ (cf. ModIcel. ælilegur)
and the strong verb ala ‘feed’ (hence
perhaps ‘feeder’).