"seir" meaning in Irish

See seir in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʃeɾʲ/
Etymology: From Old Irish seir (“heel”), from Proto-Celtic *sɸerā, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”). Etymology templates: {{root|ga|ine-pro|*sperH-}}, {{der|ga|sga|seir|t=heel}} Old Irish seir (“heel”), {{ref|<span class="cited-source">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class="None" lang="und">2019), “seir”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>}}, {{der|ga|cel-pro|*sɸerā}} Proto-Celtic *sɸerā, {{der|ga|ine-pro|*sperH-|t=to kick}} Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|seire|||||||nominative plural|seireacha|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|var=}} seir f (genitive singular seire, nominative plural seireacha), {{ga-noun|f|~e|~eacha}} seir f (genitive singular seire, nominative plural seireacha) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: seire [genitive, singular], seireacha [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an tseir [definite, nominative, singular], na seireacha [definite, nominative, plural], na seire [definite, genitive, singular], na seireacha [definite, genitive, plural], leis an tseir [dative, definite, singular], don tseir [dative, definite, singular], leis na seireacha [dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], seir [error-unrecognized-form], sheir [lenition], tseir [lenition], - [eclipsis]
  1. (dated) hock (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) Tags: dated, feminine Synonyms: speir Derived forms: speir (alt: conflated with spor)
    Sense id: en-seir-ga-noun-j9m24f~w Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Animal body parts, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 16 23 1 0 18 15 27 0 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 23 1 0 18 15 26 0 0

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "seir",
      "seir#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "*sɸerā",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sɸerā"
    ],
    [
      "*sperH-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sperH-"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sperH-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "seir",
        "t": "heel"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish seir (“heel”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<span class=\"cited-source\">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">2019), “seir”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*sɸerā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *sɸerā",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sperH-",
        "t": "to kick"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish seir (“heel”), from Proto-Celtic *sɸerā, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seire",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seireacha",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an tseir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na seireacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na seire",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na seireacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an tseir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don tseir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na seireacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seir",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sheir",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tseir",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "seireacha",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "seire",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "var": ""
      },
      "expansion": "seir f (genitive singular seire, nominative plural seireacha)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "~e",
        "3": "~eacha"
      },
      "expansion": "seir f (genitive singular seire, nominative plural seireacha)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 7 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Animal body parts",
          "orig": "ga:Animal body parts",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Anatomy"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 23 1 0 18 15 27 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 7 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 23 1 0 18 15 26 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "alt": "conflated with spor",
          "word": "speir"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hock (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)"
      ],
      "id": "en-seir-ga-noun-j9m24f~w",
      "links": [
        [
          "hock",
          "hock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) hock (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "speir"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃeɾʲ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "seir"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "alt": "conflated with spor",
      "word": "speir"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "seir",
      "seir#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "*sɸerā",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/sɸerā"
    ],
    [
      "*sperH-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sperH-"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sperH-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "seir",
        "t": "heel"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish seir (“heel”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<span class=\"cited-source\">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">2019), “seir”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "ref"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*sɸerā"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *sɸerā",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sperH-",
        "t": "to kick"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish seir (“heel”), from Proto-Celtic *sɸerā, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seire",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seireacha",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an tseir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na seireacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na seire",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na seireacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an tseir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don tseir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na seireacha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seir",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sheir",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tseir",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "nominative plural",
        "12": "seireacha",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "seire",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "var": ""
      },
      "expansion": "seir f (genitive singular seire, nominative plural seireacha)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "~e",
        "3": "~eacha"
      },
      "expansion": "seir f (genitive singular seire, nominative plural seireacha)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish dated terms",
        "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Irish feminine nouns",
        "Irish lemmas",
        "Irish nouns",
        "Irish second-declension nouns",
        "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
        "Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
        "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sperH-",
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "ga:Animal body parts"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hock (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hock",
          "hock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) hock (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃeɾʲ/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "speir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "seir"
}

Download raw JSONL data for seir meaning in Irish (3.8kB)

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  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "seir",
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}

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  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: seir/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
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  "msg": "Negatively nested table braces, couldn't split inflection section, seir/Irish section declension",
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