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Article: -Gry revisited.
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- Word Ways
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- May 1, 2008
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Over the years, much has been written in Word Ways about words and names ending in the three letters--gry. Since these same three letters can also be. arranged in five other ways, I wondered whether any words existed that ended with these. A hunt through the Oxford English Dictionary turned up some items of interest.
GYR The OED appears to contain only two words ending in this combination--egyr and kongyr.
Egyr is a 14-15 century obsolete variant spelling of the adjective "eager". The OED has three illustrative quotations with this spelling, including 1485 MALORY Arthur i. xiv (1817) With an egyr countenaunce.
Kongyr appears as a main entry in ...