spéir

See also: speir

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish spéir,[1] from Latin sphēra, sphaera (“ball, globe, sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”). Doublet of sféar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠpʲeːɾʲ/[2], [sˠpʲei̯ɾʲ][3]

Noun

spéir f (genitive singular spéire, nominative plural spéartha)

  1. sky; air
  2. airiness, brightness, light
  3. (literary) sphere, circle
  4. (literary) orbit

Declension

Declension of spéir (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative spéir spéartha
vocative a spéir a spéartha
genitive spéire spéartha
dative spéir spéartha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an spéir na spéartha
genitive na spéire na spéartha
dative leis an spéir
don spéir 		leis na spéartha

Synonyms

  • (sky, air): aer

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spéir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, pages 38–72
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 158, page 61

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.