airear

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airer n (“delight, satisfaction, pleasure”).

Noun

airear m (genitive singular airir)

1. (literary) satisfaction, pleasure, delight

Declension

Declension of airear

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative airear Vocative a airir Genitive airir Dative airear

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-airear Genitive an airir Dative leis an airear don airear

Etymology 2

Noun

airear m (genitive singular airir, nominative plural airir)

1. Alternative form of oirear (“coast, coastal region; border, border region, frontier”)

Declension

Declension of airear

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative airear airir Vocative a airir a aireara Genitive airir airear Dative airear airir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-airear na hairir Genitive an airir na n-airear Dative leis an airear don airear leis na hairir

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airear	n-airear	hairear	t-airear
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airer (‘coast; border region’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 airer (‘delight, satisfaction, pleasure’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

---

Spanish

Etymology

aire +‎ -ear

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aiɾeˈaɾ/ [ai̯.ɾeˈaɾ]

Verb

1. to air (to bring into contact with the air)

   Synonym: ventilar

2. (reflexive) to get some fresh air

Derived terms

• aireación
• aireador

Further reading

• “airear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014