seir

Lolopo

Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *(ʃ)-sin² (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Nuosu ꌌ (sip), Burmese အသည်း (a.sany:), Drung pvshin, Old Chinese 辛 (OC *[s]i[n]), Tibetan མཆིན (mchin), S'gaw Karen သူၣ် (thoò), Tedim Chin sin³, Chepang सीन्‍ह् (sinh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [se²¹]

Noun

seir 

1. (Yao'an) liver

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

seir

1. Alternative form of sere (“dry”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

seir

1. Alternative form of sere (“differing”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

seir

1. imperative of seire

Old French

Noun

seir oblique singular, m (oblique plural seirs, nominative singular seirs, nominative plural seir)

1. Alternative form of soir
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     Vengez voz fi[l]z, voz freres e voz heirs,
     Qu’en Rencesvals furent morz l’altre seir

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sɸerā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲerʲ/

Noun

seir f

1. heel

Inflection

Feminine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	seir	seirithL, seir	seirith
Vocative	seir	seirithL, seir	seirthea
Accusative	seirithN	seirithL, seir	seirthea
Genitive	seireth	seireth	seirethN
Dative	seirithL	seirthib	seirthib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: seir
  • Irish: seir, speir

Mutation

Like siur (“sister”), this term lenited with /f/, spelled ph or f, instead of the typical /h/, in this case due to its descent from Proto-Celtic sɸ-.

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
seir	pheir, feir	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language