aníar

From an- +‎ íar.

• IPA^(key): [aˈn͈ʲiːa̯r]

aníar

1. from behind
2. from the west
3. in the west

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 67^d8

  Is ed as·ber-som trá isin chanóin-se, is hi túaisciurt slébe Sióin atá in chathir; ⁊ ní for sodin trachtid ar chiun⟨n⟩, acht is for am Mons Sión .i. du·imchella son in cathraig andes ⁊ aníar ⁊ antuaid.

  It is this, then, that he says in this text, that the city is on the north of Mount Sion; and it is not on this that he comments below, but on Mons Sion, i.e. it surrounds the city on the south, the west, and the north.

• Irish: aniar
• Manx: neear
• Scottish Gaelic: an iar

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aníar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language