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fiar.

slant, tilt, bias, obliquity

4 characters1 syllables approx.Gaeilge language

Meaning & usage

noun/fʲiəɾˠ/
  1. slant, tilt, bias, obliquity

    masculine
  2. bend, twist; crookedness, perverseness

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Irish fíar, from Proto-Celtic *weiros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁y- (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō).

adj/fʲiəɾˠ/
  1. slanting, tilted, oblique, diagonal, crosswise

  2. bent, warped, crooked, perverse

Where this word comes from

From Middle Irish fíar, from Proto-Celtic *weiros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁y- (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō).

verb/fʲiəɾˠ/
  1. slant, tilt, veer, turn

  2. bend, twist, distort

Where this word comes from

From Middle Irish fíar, from Proto-Celtic *weiros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁y- (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō).

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