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fir

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Firan.

A fir tree (Abies balsamea)

From Middle English firre, from Old English fyrh, furh, as in furhwudu (“pinewood”),[1] from Proto-West Germanic *furhu, from Proto-Germanic *furhō, *furhijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥kʷeh₂, from *pérkʷus (“oak”). Possibly conflated during Middle English with Old Norse fýri (as in fýriskógr (“pine-wood”).[2]

Germanic cognates include Dutch vuren, Low German Fuhr, German Föhre (“pine”), Danish fyr). Outside of Germanic, compare Italian (Trentino) porca (“fir”), Latin quercus (“oak”), Albanian shpardh, shparr (“Italian oak”), Punjabi ਪਰਗਾਇ (pargāī, “holm oak, _Quercus baloot_”)). Related to frith.

fir (countable and uncountable, plural firs)

  1. (chiefly countable) A conifer of the genus Abies.
    • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
      A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
  2. (chiefly countable) Any pinaceous conifer of related genera, especially a Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) or a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
    • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 3, in The Lord of the Rings:
      we shall find a spot that is sheltered and snug enough, sir. There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly.
    • 1991, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: American Christmas, Dark Horse Books:
      I can almost smell the fir scent… resinous, pungent.
  3. (uncountable) Wood of such trees.

conifer of the genus Abies

  1. ^ J.P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, eds., Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture s.v. "oak", "pine" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), pp. 407, 428-9.
  2. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edn., s.v. "fir" (Oxford, 2000).

fir m

  1. inflection of fear (“man; husband”):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutated forms of fir

radical lenition eclipsis
fir fhir bhfir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 2, page 5
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 106
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 100

From Old High German furi, from Proto-West Germanic *furi, from Proto-Germanic *furi. Cognate with German für, English for.

fir (+ accusative)

  1. for

fir

  1. plural of fer

Mutation of fir

radical lenition eclipsis
fir ir vir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

fir

  1. alternative form of firre

fir f

  1. flight (act of flying)

fir

  1. imperative of fire

fir

  1. inflection of fer:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

Mutation of fir

radical lenition nasalization
fir ḟir firpronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Inherited from Latin fīlum, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

fir n (plural fire)

  1. thread, string, filament, wire
  2. (fir de păr) a hair

fir m

  1. genitive singular of fear
  2. nominative plural of fear

Mutation of fir

radical lenition
fir fhir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Inherited from Old French fer, from Latin ferus. Compare French fier.

fir m (feminine singular fire, masculine plural firs, feminine plural fires, feminine plural (before noun) firès)

  1. proud