spéir

• spéar, speur

From Middle Irish spéir, from Latin sphēra, sphaera (“ball, globe, sphere”), from Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”). Doublet of sféar.

• IPA^(key): /sˠpʲeːɾʲ/

spéir f (genitive singular spéire, nominative plural spéartha)

1. sky; air
2. airiness, brightness, light
3. (literary) sphere, circle
4. (literary) orbit

• (sky, air): aer

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