See also: fior, fìor, and fíor-

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish fír (true),[4] from Proto-Celtic *wīros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros. Cognate with Latin vērus and German wahr.

Adjective

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fíor (genitive singular masculine fír, genitive singular feminine fíre, plural fíora, comparative fíre)

  1. true
    Synonym: ceart
    Antonym: ainfhíor
  2. correct
    Synonym: ceart
  3. real
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Noun

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fíor f (genitive singular fíre, nominative plural fíora)

  1. truth
  2. honour
  3. true word; assurance, pledge
    1. (colloquial) word
  4. (literary) test, ordeal
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Verb

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fíor (present analytic fíorann, future analytic fíorfaidh, verbal noun fíoradh, past participle fíortha)

  1. (transitive) Alternative form of fíoraigh (verify)
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish figor, borrowed from Latin figūra.[5] Doublet of figiúr.

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Noun

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fíor f (genitive singular fíorach, nominative plural fíoracha)

  1. figure
  2. (military, sports) formation
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Verb

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fíor (present analytic fíorann, future analytic fíorfaidh, verbal noun fíoradh, past participle fíortha)

  1. (transitive) Alternative form of fíoraigh (figure, outline; prefigure, symbolize; portend)
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fíor fhíor bhfíor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 57, page 30
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 112
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 165, page 62
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 figa(i)r, fiugair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language