léir

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲeːɾʲ/

From Old Irish léir, from Proto-Celtic *lēris.

• léar

léir (genitive singular feminine léire, plural léire, comparative léire)

1. clear
2. distinct
3. clever
4. explicit
5. evident

• go léir
• léirigh

léir

1. inflection of léar:
   1. vocative/genitive singular masculine
   2. (archaic) dative singular feminine

Inflected form of léigh.

• léighir (obsolete)

léir

1. (Munster, otherwise archaic) second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of léigh

From Proto-Celtic *lēris (“diligent, assiduous”).

• IPA^(key): /l͈ʲeːrʲ/

léir

1. assiduous, earnest, careful, zealous
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14^d3

     cid écen aisndís do neuch as doruid co léir, ní sechmalfaider cuimre and dano

     though it is necessary to explain carefully anything that is difficult, however brevity will not be passed by

2. (later) visible, perceptible

• Irish: léir
• Scottish Gaelic: lèir

léir

1. Superseded spelling of lèir.