Noun: speir
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | speir |
| Singular Genitive | speire |
| Plural Nominative | speireacha |
| Plural Genitive | speireacha |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an speir |
| Singular Genitive | na speire |
| Plural Nominative | na speireacha |
| Plural Genitive | na speireacha |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like speir
adhmhaidin,
amhailt,
angaispeirm,
bitheirm,
bonnuillinn,
bríd,
béic,
cairb,
claonfhoirm,
coirb,
coirpéis,
comhfheirm,
cúirtghairm,
cúlghairm,
dlúthuillinn,
drail,
failc,
failm,
feilm,
foirb, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alternative form of seir (from Old Irish seir (“heel”)) altered under the influence of spor (“spur”) (from Middle English spore and/or Old Norse spori, from Proto-Germanic *spurô). Both the native word and the Germanic loanword are from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”). The same conflation is found in Manx and Scottish Gaelic speir. See: Middle English Nouns '
spore', Old Norse Nouns '
spori'.