wilde fyr

• wilde-fyre
• wildefire, wilde fire, wild ffyre, wylde ffyr, wylde fyre (Late Middle English)
• wilde fere (Norfolk); wilde feer (Suffolk)
• wilde fur (Gloucestershire); wildefuyre (Shropshire)

Inherited from Old English wilde fȳr; by surface analysis, wilde (“wild”) +‎ fyr (“fire”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːld(ə) ˌfiːr/, /ˈwild(ə)ˌfiːr/
• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːld(ə) ˌvyːr/, /ˈwild(ə)ˌvyːr/, /-fyːr/ (West Midland)
• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːld(ə) ˌfeːr/, /ˈwild(ə)ˌfeːr/ (East Anglia)

wilde fyr (uncountable)

1. A destructive or extreme fire; a wildfire.
2. Greek fire or another substance with an incendiary function.
3. Erysipelas or a similar inflammatory skin disease.

• English: wildfire
• Middle Scots: wild fyre, wildfyre, wyld fyre

• “wīlde fīr(e, phr. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Proto-West Germanic *wilþī fuir. Cognate with Old Frisian *wilde fiur (West Frisian wyldfjoer), Old High German *wildi fiur (Middle High German wilde fiur).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwil.de fyːr/, [ˈwiɫ.de fyːr]

wilde fȳr n (nominative plural wildu fȳr)

1. wildfire

See wilde and fȳr.

• Middle English: wilde fyr, wilde-fyre, wildefire, wilde fire, wild ffyre, wylde ffyr, wylde fyre (Late Middle English), wilde fere (Norfolk), wilde feer (Suffolk), wilde fur (Gloucestershire), wildefuyre (Shropshire)
  • English: wildfire
  • Middle Scots: wild fyre, wildfyre, wyld fyre