fiar – Irish noun declension

Irish noun forms of fiar

Noun: fiar

Gender: Masc

Forms without Article

Singular Nominativefiar
Singular Genitivefiair
Plural Nominativefiara
Plural Genitivefiar

Forms with Article

Singular Nominativean fiar
Singular Genitivean fhiair
Plural Nominativena fiara
Plural Genitivena bhfiar

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like fiar

droch-chor, fiar,

Etymology

From Middle Irish fíar, from Proto-Celtic *weiros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁y- (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō). See: English Nouns 'wire', Latin Nouns 'vieō'.

Translations

  • distort, to bring something out of shape