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• IPA(key): /ʃiːr/

From Proto-West Germanic *skīru.

• sċiir, sċȳr

sċīr f

1. office (status of an official)
2. district (under an official or governor)
3. administrative region, shire (consisting of a number of hundreds or wapentakes, ruled jointly by an alderman and a sheriff)

Declension of sċīr (strong ō-stem)

• scīrġerēfa
• Middle English: shire, shiere, chire, ssire, schire, schyre
  • English: shire
    * → Icelandic: skíri
  • Scots: shire

From Proto-Germanic *skīraz, from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, bright”).

Cognate with Old Frisian skire, Old Saxon skīr, Dutch schier (“white, grey”), German schier (“pure”)), Old Norse skírr (Swedish skir), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs) Related to scinan.

sċīr

1. bright, shining
2. clear, pure

Declension of sċīr — Strong

Declension of sċīr — Weak

• Middle English: schyre
  • English: shire (obsolete),
  • English: sheer (partly)