different between mair vs cair

English

Etymology

From Middle English mair, mare, from Old English m?ra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Geordie) IPA^(key): /m??/

Adjective

mair (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) more

Adverb

mair (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) more

Anagrams

• Amir, Irma, Mari, Mira, RIMA, amir, raim, rami, rima

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?a??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /m????/ (as if spelled moir)

Verb

mair (present analytic maireann, future analytic mairfidh, verbal noun maireachtáil, past participle mairthe)

1. live, remain, survive

2. last (“endure, hold out, continue”)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 199:

     m???? n w?n d?? kai??š el?.

     conventional orthography: Mairfidh an mhóin dúinn coicís eile.

     The turf will last us another fortnight.

Conjugation

Alternative verbal nouns: maireachtaint, mairstean

Derived terms

• maireachtáil (“living (noun)”)
• go maire tú an lá (“happy birthday”)

Mutation

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mér, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós.

Noun

mair f (genitive singular mair, plural meir)

1. (anatomy) finger, digit
2. prong
3. key (of piano)
4. hand (of clock)
5. tributary (of river)

Derived terms

Mutation

Occitan

Noun

mair f (plural mairs)

1. (Gascony) mother
2. (Gascony) riverbed

References

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?r/

Etymology 1

From northern Middle English mare, from Old English m?ra (compare English more), from Proto-Germanic *maizô.

Adjective

mair (not comparable)

1. bigger, greater

Adverb

mair (not comparable)

1. more

Derived terms

• mair by taiken
• mair oot ower
• the mair

Related terms

• mae

Etymology 2

From Middle English meyr, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”).

Noun

mair (plural mairs)

1. (archaic) mayor

Derived terms

• mair o fee
• mairship
• shirra-mair

Etymology 3

From Old English m?r.

Alternative forms

• muir

Noun

mair (plural mairs)

1. (South Scots) moor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/

Verb

mair (past mhair, future mairidh, verbal noun mairsinn or maireann or maireachdainn, past participle mairte)

1. last, continue

Synonyms

• seas

Derived terms

• maireannach
• nach maireann

English

Etymology

From Middle English cairen, kayren, from Old Norse keyra (“to whip, lash, fling, toss, prick on, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *kaurijan? (“tu turn, sweep”). Cognate with Icelandic keyra (“to run, drive, urge”), Swedish köra (“to drive, go, run”), Danish køre (“to drive”), Norwegian Bokmål kjøre (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk køyra (“to drive”), Old English ?ierran (“to turn, change, go, come”). More at char.

Verb

cair (third-person singular simple present cairs, present participle cairing, simple past and past participle caired)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To carry.
3. (transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.

Anagrams

• ACIR, AICR, Acri, CIRA, CRIA, Cira, arci, cria

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??a?r]
• Hyphenation: ca?ir

Adjective

cair

1. liquid: flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.

   Synonym: likuid

2. thin: of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

   Synonym: encer

   Antonym: kental

3. (figuratively) fluid: convertible into cash.
4. (figuratively) leaked: of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.

   Synonym: bocor

5. (figuratively) weak

   Synonym: lemah

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “cair” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish cóir, from Old Irish coaïr, cóir.

Adjective

cair

1. just, right
2. due

Noun

cair f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. property
2. rights, privilege

Derived terms

• neuchairagh
• neuchairys

Mutation

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cahir (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese caer, from Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?ad- (“to fall”). Cognate with Spanish caer and Galician caer.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?i?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?i(?)/, [k?.?i(?)]

Verb

cair (first-person singular present indicative caio, past participle caído)

1. (intransitive) to fall; to fall down; to drop

2. (transitive with de) to fall from (to fall so it is no longer attached to or on top of something)

3. (figuratively, intransitive) to fall; to collapse (to be overthrown, defeated or annulled)

4. (with the adverb bem or mal, intransitive, or transitive with com or em) to suit (to be appropriate or suitable)

5. (intransitive, with the adverb bem or mal, of food) to go down (to be eaten with or without causing indigestion)

6. (intransitive) to decrease (to lower in value or quantity)

7. (intransitive) to get disconnected, to be interrupted (of a call or connection)

8. (euphemistic, intransitive) to fall (to die in battle)

9. (of a subject or question, intransitive, or transitive with em) to be present in a test

Conjugation

Related terms

• esquecer
• queda