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Webster 1913 Edition
Mir
Mir
(mēr)
, Noun.
[Russ.
mir’
.] A Russian village community.
D. M. Wallace.
Definition 2024
mír
mír
Czech
Noun
mír m
Declension
Declension of mír
Antonyms
Related terms
- mírný
- mírový
- umírněný
- mírumilovný
- smířit
- smírčí
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish mír (“morsel, piece of meat”), from Proto-Celtic *mīros (“piece of meat”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗmsrom. Cognate with Latin membrum (“limb”), Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa, “meat”), Old Church Slavonic мѧсо (męso, “meat”), and Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat”),
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mʲiːɾʲ/
Noun
mír f (genitive singular míre, nominative plural míreanna)
Declension
Declension of mír
Second declension
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
Derived terms
- iarmhír
- réimír
- mír fhoclóireachta (“lexical item”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mír | mhír | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- “mír” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- "mír" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.