air
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From Middle English aire, from Old French air, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr). Displaced native Old English lyft. More at lift, loft.
air (countable and uncountable, plural airs)
air (third-person singular simple present airs, present participle airing, simple past and past participle aired)
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air
From Old Cornish aer, aƿui(r), borrowed from Latin aer.
air m
Borrowed from French air, from Middle French air, from Old French air, from Latin āēr.
air m (plural airs, diminutive airtje n)
air m (plural airs)
air
From Malay air, from Classical Malay اير (air), from Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
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air (uncountable)
From Old Irish airid (“ploughs, tills”).
air (present analytic aireann, future analytic airfidh, verbal noun ar, past participle airthe)
singular | plural | relative | autonomous | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||
indicative | present | airim | aireann tú; airir† |
aireann sé, sí | airimid | aireann sibh | aireann siad; airid† |
a aireann; a aireas / a n-aireann* |
airtear |
past | d'air mé; d'aireas / air mé‡; aireas‡ |
d'air tú; d'airis / air tú; airis‡ |
d'air sé, sí / air sé, sí‡ |
d'aireamar; d'air muid / aireamar; air muid‡ |
d'air sibh; d'aireabhair / air sibh; aireabhair‡ |
d'air siad; d'aireadar / air siad; aireadar‡ |
a d'air / ar air* |
aireadh; haireadh† | |
past habitual | d'airinn / airinn‡; n-airinn‡‡ |
d'airteá / airteá‡; n-airteᇇ |
d'aireadh sé, sí / aireadh sé, sí‡; n-aireadh sé, s퇇 |
d'airimis; d'aireadh muid / airimis; aireadh muid‡; n-airimis‡‡; n-aireadh muid‡‡ |
d'aireadh sibh / aireadh sibh‡; n-aireadh sibh‡‡ |
d'airidís; d'aireadh siad / airidís; aireadh siad‡; n-airidís‡‡; n-aireadh siad‡‡ |
a d'aireadh / a n-aireadh* |
d'airtí / airtí‡; n-airt퇇 | |
future | airfidh mé; airfead |
airfidh tú; airfir† |
airfidh sé, sí | airfimid; airfidh muid |
airfidh sibh | airfidh siad; airfid† |
a airfidh; a airfeas / a n-airfidh* |
airfear | |
conditional | d'airfinn / airfinn‡; n-airfinn‡‡ | d'airfeá / airfeá‡; n-airfeᇇ | d'airfeadh sé, sí / airfeadh sé, sí‡; n-airfeadh sé, s퇇 | d'airfimis; d'airfeadh muid / airfimis‡; airfeadh muid‡; n-airfimis‡‡; n-airfeadh muid‡‡ | d'airfeadh sibh / airfeadh sibh‡; n-airfeadh sibh‡‡ | d'airfidís; d'airfeadh siad / airfidís‡; airfeadh siad‡; n-airfidís‡‡; n-airfeadh siad‡‡ | a d'airfeadh / a n-airfeadh* |
d'airfí / airfí‡; n-airf퇇 | |
subjunctive | present | go n-aire mé; go n-airead† |
go n-aire tú; go n-airir† |
go n-aire sé, sí | go n-airimid; go n-aire muid |
go n-aire sibh | go n-aire siad; go n-airid† |
— | go n-airtear |
past | dá n-airinn | dá n-airteá | dá n-aireadh sé, sí | dá n-airimis; dá n-aireadh muid |
dá n-aireadh sibh | dá n-airidís; dá n-aireadh siad |
— | dá n-airtí | |
imperative | airim | air | aireadh sé, sí | airimis | airigí; airidh† |
airidís | — | airtear | |
verbal noun | ar | ||||||||
past participle | airthe |
air m
air (emphatic airsean)
radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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air | n-air | hair | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
air
air
From Proto-Finnic *airo.
air
From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (āir).
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air (Jawi spelling اٴير, informal 1st possessive airku, 2nd possessive airmu, 3rd possessive airnya)
air m (plural airs)
From Proto-Brythonic *aɨr ("battle, carnage"), from Proto-Celtic *agrom ("slaughter, battle"). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵro- ("field, pasturage"), from *h₂eǵ- ("to drive").
air
air oblique singular, m (oblique plural airs, nominative singular airs, nominative plural air)
From the same root as ar (“for”, preposition).
air
For quotations using this term, see Citations:air.
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiR, compare Malay air.
air
air
From Middle English air, from Old French air, from Latin āēr.
air (uncountable)
From Icelandic ar (“mote, speck of dust”).
air (plural airs)
Perhaps from air. See above.
air (third-person singular simple present airs, present participle airin, simple past aired, past participle aired)
From Middle English ore, from Old English ār, from Proto-West Germanic *airu.
air (plural airs)
air (plural airs)
From Middle English eire, from Old French eire, from Latin iter (“journey”).
air (plural airs)
From Middle English er, from Old English ǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *airi.
air (not comparable)
air (not comparable)
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