īrs

See also: IRS

Latvian[edit]

Via some other European language (probably Germanic; cf. Old Norse írar, Old English Īras, German Ire), ultimately from Old Irish Ériu (“Ireland”) (Irish Éire).

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īrs m (1st declension, feminine form: īriete)

an Irishman
tikties ar īriem ― to meet with Irishmen

īri ir viena no Eiropas nācijām, kas cēlusies no ķeltiem ― the Irish are one of the nations of Europe that descend from the Celts

Džordžs Bernards Šovs, pēc tautības īrs, dzimis Dublinā ― George Bernard Shaw, by ethnicity an Irishman, was born in Dublin
(genitive plural) Irish, pertaining to Ireland and its people
īru valoda ― the Irish language

īru literatūra ― Irish literature

Declension of īrs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	īrs	īri
accusative (akuzatīvs)	īru	īrus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	īra	īru
dative (datīvs)	īram	īriem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	īru	īriem
locative (lokatīvs)	īrā	īros
vocative (vokatīvs)	īr	īri