tir

See also: TIR, Tir, tír, tìr, tîr, and Appendix:Variations of "tir"

Translingual

Symbol

tir

1. The ISO 639-3 language code for Tigrinya

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Noun

tir m (plural tirioù)

1. land

Inflection

  Mutation of tir  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	tir	dir	zir	unchanged
plural	tirioù	dirioù	zirioù	unchanged

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Catalan

Noun

tir m (plural tirs)

1. shot
2. shooting (sport)

Derived terms

• tir amb arc
• tir olímpic

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Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Noun

tir m (plural tiryow)

1. land, earth

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French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʁ/

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Noun

tir m (plural tirs)

1. shot
2. shooting (sport)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• tir à l'arc
• tir de barrage
• tir de suppression

• tirer
• tir parthe

Further reading

• “tir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rit, rît
• tri

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tīraz, from Proto-Indo-European *dey-.

Cognate with Old Norse tírr and Old Saxon tīr (“glory, renown”). A variant of Proto-Germanic *tērīn-, whence Old High German zierī (German Zier (“splendour, beauty”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːr/

Noun

tīr m

1. fame; glory; honour

Descendants

• Middle English: tir

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Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tīros from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.

Noun

tir m

1. land

Descendants

• Welsh: tir

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Polish

Etymology

From blue-and-white plates with the French initialism TIR (“Transports Internationaux Routiers”), which are put on vehicles matching the requirements of the TIR Convention.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tir/

Noun

tir m anim

1. articulated lorry

Declension

declension of tir

	singular	plural
nominative	tir	tiry
genitive	tira	tirów
dative	tirowi	tirom
accusative	tira	tiry
instrumental	tirem	tirami
locative	tirze	tirach
vocative	tirze	tiry

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Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali তীর (tīr), from Persian تیر‎ (tir).

Noun

tir

1. arrow

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Tatar

Noun

tir

1. sweat

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Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh tir, from Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːr/

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Noun

tir m (plural tiroedd)

1. land

Derived terms

Derived terms

• abatir (“abbey land”)
• blaendir (“foreground”)
• Canoldir (“Mediterranean”)
• cefndir (“background”)
• coetir (“woodland”)
• corstir (“marshland”)
• crastir (“parched land”)
• crindir (“parched land”)
• culdir (“isthmus”)
• cyfandir (“continent”)
• cyffindir (“frontier, ecotone”)
• cytir (“common”)
• diffeithdir (“desert”)
• ffendir (“fenland”)
• Ffindir (“Finland”)
• glastir (“pasture land, sward”)
• gwastatir (“level, plain”)
• gwlyptir (“wetland”)
• Iseldiroedd (“Netherlands”)
• llwyfandir (“plateau”)
• mawndir (“peatland”)
• maestir (“open country”)
• milltir (“mile”)
• mynydd-dir (“mountain land, hill country”)
• peithdir (“pampa”)
• pentir (“headland”)
• rhandir (“division, allotment”)
• rhostir (“moorland, heathland”)
• Swistir (“Switzerland”)
• ucheldir (“highland”)
• tir agored (“champion land”)
• tir ar rent (“fief”)
• tir âr (“ploughland, arable land”)
• tir breiniol (“franchise”)
• tir bwrdais (“burgage”)
• tir caeedig (“enclosure, enclosed land”)
• tir comin (“common land”)
• tir diffaith (“wasteland”)
• tir eglwys (“glebe”)
• tir esgob (“bishopland”)
• tir ffermio (“farmland”)
• tir glas (“greenfield”)
• tir llan (“glebe”)
• tir mawr (“mainland”)
• tir neb (“no-man's land”)
• tir oer (“tierra fria”)
• tir poeth (“tierra caliente”)
• tir pori (“pasture, grazing land”)
• tir prysg (“scrubland”)
• tir rhydd-ddaliol (“freehold land”)
• tir rhyngafonol (“interfluve”)
• tir rhywiog (“tilth”)
• tir tro (“tillage”)
• tir tymherus (“tierra templada”)
• tir y goron (“crown land”)
• tir ymylol (“marginal land”)
• tir ysgol (“school ground”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tir	dir	nhir	thir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.