skir

See also: skír

Middle English

skir

skir

Common Germanic word.

skir (comparative skirare, superlative skirast)

sheer (thin and delicate (and often more or less transparent), like gauze or gossamer)
1. wispy (of a cloud)
(figuratively) delicate, ethereal, etc.
(higher register, especially of (light from) a celestial body) clear, shining

Inflection of skir
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	skir	skirare	skirast
Neuter singular	skirt	skirare	skirast
Plural	skira	skirare	skirast
Masculine plural³	skire	skirare	skirast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	skire	skirare	skiraste
All	skira	skirare	skiraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

skir n

sheer (sheer fabric)
(higher register) something sheer, veil-like substance (more generally, for example haze or wispy clouds)

A verbal form derived from skee. Cognate with English sky (“to throw a ball extremely high”).

skir

To rise in the air.
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
  Th' commanès t'rapple; th' ball skir an vlee;
  The ball-clubs they rattled; the ball rose and flew;

Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68