vårå

• vårrå (Trøndelag)

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɔɾɔ/, /²ʋɔɾːɔ/
• Note: All vowels are short.

vårå

1. (dialectal) alternative form of vere (“botfly larvae”)

From Old Norse vera, where the vowels are fully levelled. Cf. våtå < vita.

First attested in 1745 by Frederik Hammond spelled as vaarraa.

vårå (present tense e, past tense va, present participle veri or vori or viri or vyri or vyry)

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) alternative form of vera (“to be”)
   • 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af landsmaalet i Norge, Christiania: Printed by Carl C. Werner & Comp, page 8:

     saa kom Guten heim att aa ha’ ingjen Ting lært. Saa skul han lær’ sæg te Skomakar, aa dæ gjekk lik’eins; saa skul han vaaraa Snikkar, aa dæ gjekk paa saammaa Maatin.

     then the boy came home and had learnt nothing. Then he was learning how to be a shoemaker, and it ended the same; then he was going to be a carpenter, and it went the same way.

From Old Norse vara.

vårå

1. (dialectal) alternative form of vara (“to last”)