síor-

See also: sior, sìor, siôr, and siör

Irish

Etymology

From síor (“eternal, perpetual; continual”), from Old Irish sír (“lasting, constant”) (compare Manx sheer-, Scottish Gaelic sìor-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːɾˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ʃiəɾˠ/
• IPA^(key): /ʃiːɾʲ/
• Homophone: siar (Cois Fharraige)

Prefix

síor-

1. perpetual, continual
2. ever-, invariably, always

Derived terms

Irish terms prefixed with síor-

• síorchaint f (“(act of) talking continually; never-ending talk”)
• síorghnách (“commonplace, humdrum”, adjective)

Related terms

• síoraí (“eternal, perpetual; unceasing, continual; constant, persevering”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
síor-	shíor- after an, tsíor-	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “síor-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language