different between vair vs cair

English

Etymology

From Middle English veir, veire, from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

vair (countable and uncountable, plural vairs)

1. (archaic) A type of fur from a squirrel with a black back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages.
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 323:

     Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair.

2. (heraldry) An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white).

Related terms

• countervair
• vairy
• varriated

Translations

See also

• ermine
• fur
• potent

Anagrams

• Ravi, Riva, Viar, riva, vari, vira

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vair n (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) vair (fur used in heraldry)

French

Etymology

From Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/
• Homophones: vaire, vaires, vairs, ver, vers, vert, verts, verre, verres
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

vair m (plural vairs)

1. (heraldry) vair

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ravi, riva, vira, vrai

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French veeir, veoir, from Latin vide?, vid?re, cognate with French voir.

Verb

vair

1. To see

   Disez-mai don, v'ez-ti pas veü un jiene là tout à l'oure ?

   Please tell me, have you seen a young man there few minutes ago ?

Middle English

Noun

vair

1. Alternative form of veir

Old French

Etymology

From the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius.

Adjective

vair m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vaire)

1. changeable; that may change
2. multi-colored; polychromatic
3. shining; brilliant

Declension

Noun

vair m (oblique plural vairs, nominative singular vairs, nominative plural vair)

1. vair (fur of a squirrel)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: veir
  • English: vair
• French: vair
• ? Irish: véir

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) vesair
• (Sursilvan) veser
• (Sutsilvan) vaser
• (Surmiran) veir
• (Puter) vzair
• (Vallader) verer

Etymology

From Latin vide?, vid?re.

Verb

vair

1. (Puter) to look
2. (Puter) to see

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