aer

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aer"

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

From Malay air.

Noun

aer

1. water

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Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ/

Noun

aer f (plural aerioù)

1. air

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo, from Proto-Germanic *airō. Cognate with Finnish airo.

Noun

aer (genitive aeru, partitive aeru)

1. paddle

Declension

Declension of aer (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	aer	aerud
genitive	aeru	aerude
partitive	aeru	aere / aerusid
illative	aeru / aerusse	aerudesse
inessive	aerus	aerudes
elative	aerust	aerudest
allative	aerule	aerudele
adessive	aerul	aerudel
ablative	aerult	aerudelt
translative	aeruks	aerudeks
terminative	aeruni	aerudeni
essive	aeruna	aerudena
abessive	aeruta	aerudeta
comitative	aeruga	aerudega

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Irish

Alternative forms

• aidhéar

Etymology

From Old Irish aer, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːɾˠ/

Noun

aer m (genitive singular aeir, nominative plural aeir)

1. air
2. sky
3. (weather) climate
4. gaiety, pleasure
5. (music) air, tune

Declension

Declension of aer

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative aer aeir Vocative a aeir a aera Genitive aeir aer Dative aer aeir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aer na haeir Genitive an aeir na n-aer Dative leis an aer don aer leis na haeir

Synonyms

• (sky, air): spéir
• (climate): aeráid, clíoma

Derived terms

• aer- (“aero-, aerial; pneumatic”)
• aerach (“gay”, adjective)
• aerghiotár (“air guitar”)
• aertha (“light-headed, giddy; simple-minded, silly”, adjective)

Noun

aer m (genitive singular aeir)

1. wonder

Declension

Declension of aer

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aer Vocative a aeir Genitive aeir Dative aer

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-aer Genitive an aeir Dative leis an aer don aer

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aer	n-aer	haer	t-aer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “aer” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 6.
• "aer" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.eːr/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.er/, [ˈaː.ɛr]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.eːr/, [ˈa.er]

Noun

āēr m or f (genitive āeris or āeros); third declension

1. air

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ēr).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	āēr	āerēs āera
Genitive	āeris āeros	āerum
Dative	āerī	āeribus
Accusative	āera āerem	āerēs āera
Ablative	āere	āeribus
Vocative	āēr	āerēs

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: air, airu
  • Romanian: aer
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: aria
  • Dalmatian: aria
  • Italian: aria (via āera) (see there for further descendants)
  • Italian: aere, aiere, aire, are (via āerem)
  • Sicilian: aria, ariu
    • → Maltese: arja
• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: ايْرى‎ (airi)

  Hebrew: איִריִ‎ (airi)

• Old French: air, aer, aïr, ar, eir, aeir, eyer
  • French: air
  • Norman: air
  • → Middle English: air, eir
    • English: air
    • Scots: air
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: aire
  • Occitan: aire, àira
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: aiar, ajar
  • Romansch: ajer, aria, leer
• Sardinian: aera, àeri, àghera, àiri, ari, ària
• Venetian: aria, aiere, agere
  • → Cimbrian: èar
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: aire
    • Mirandese: aire
  • Old Portuguese: aar, aire, aere
    • Galician: ar, aire
    • Portuguese: ar
  • Spanish: aire
    • → Basque: aire
• → Albanian: ajër
• → Celtic:
  • Brythonic:
    • Breton: aer
    • Cornish: air, ayr
    • Middle Welsh: awyr
      • Welsh: awyr
  • Old Irish: aer
    • Irish: aer, aidhéar
    • Manx: aer
    • Scottish Gaelic: adhar

References

• aer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish aer, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːə/

Noun

aer f

1. sky
2. air

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *ār, from Proto-Germanic *ahaz.

Noun

âer f

1. ear (of corn, grain etc.)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aar

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

āer m

1. eagle

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aar

Further reading

• “aer”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “aer (I)”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “aer (II)”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.er/

Noun

aer m (genitive aeir, nominative plural aeir)

1. air
2. sky

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	aer	aerL	aeirL
Vocative	aeir	aerL	aeruH
Accusative	aerN	aerL	aeruH
Genitive	aeirL	aer	aerN
Dative	aerL	aeraib	aeraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: aer, aidhéar
• Manx: aer
• Scottish Gaelic: adhar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
aer	unchanged	n-aer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin āēr.

Noun

aer n (plural aere)

1. air

Declension

Declension of aer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) aer	aerul	(niște) aere	aerele
genitive/dative	(unui) aer	aerului	(unor) aere	aerelor
vocative	aerule		aerelor

Derived terms

• aera
• aeresc
• aeros

Related terms

• aerisi

See also

• văzduh

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Venetian

Etymology

From Latin habeō.

Verb

aer

1. to have

See also

• èser (“to be”)

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /aːɨ̯r/
• (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ai̯r/
  • (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /aːr/

Verb

aer

1. (literary) impersonal imperative of mynd

   Synonym: eler

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Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hâer, from Old Dutch hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

Noun

aer n (plural [please provide])

1. hair

Alternative forms

• aor
• 'aer
• 'aor