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[7] gyrja ‘stain’: This verb is a hap. leg. and is thought to be related to gor ‘half-digested stomach contents, cud of an animal’, deriving from a root gu̯her- ‘hot, warm’ (see Pokorny 1959, 493-5); the meaning ‘singe, burn’ seems equally possible.