different between wair vs cair

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: ware, wear

Etymology 1

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Noun

wair (plural wairs)

1. A plank six feet long and one foot across.

Etymology 2

Verb

wair (third-person singular simple present wairs, present participle wairing, simple past and past participle waired)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
   • 1826, Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session, Volume 3, Edinburgh, page 569,

     […] they find there was no lesion to the minor by setting the said tack, and that the money waired out by the defender, in building and reparations, viz not only the ?1317 Scots first given out, but also the ?326 last waired by the defender, […]

   • 1831 [1566], John Knox, William McGavin (editor), The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland, page 94,

     We shall maintain them, nourish them, and defend them, the whole congregation of Christ, and every member thereof, at our whole powers and wairing [spending] of our lives, against Satan, and all wicked power that does intend tyranny or trouble against the foresaid congregation.

   • 1841, William Alexander, An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1424—1707, page 243,

     […] Reserving alwayes to the Sheriff or other Magistrates, and taker of the Thief, the expences waired out by them in taking and putting the Thief to execution.

Etymology 3

Verb

wair

1. Nonstandard form of were.
   • 1897, Henry Christopher McCook The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794, 2007, page 18,

     We didn't al'ays stay here, but wair on the wing here and thar where game was most plentiful, and often in company with the Mingoes, who wair our sworn fri'nds an' allies.

References

Anagrams

• Wari, iWar, wari

Gothic

Romanization

wair

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Sika

Noun

wair

1. water

References

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wai?r/

Noun

wair

1. Soft mutation of gwair.

Mutation

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