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ir

Pronunciation: [ir]

“ir” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

verb

  1. is; third-person singular present indicative of būt
  2. are; third-person plural present indicative of būt
  3. let (him, her, it) be; third-person singular imperative of būt
  4. let them be; third-person plural imperative of būt

conjunction

  1. additive conjunction used to join several similar sentence elements, indicating their similar nature: both ... and ..., ... and also ..., ... as well as ...

particle

  1. used to mark connection and emphasis, reinforcement; syn. arī
  2. used to mark emphasis, to reinforce; syn. pat: really, even

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *irā (cf. dialectal, archaic forms irād, iraid, irāg, and also Lithuanian yrà, which existed alongside *esti (cf. Old Church Slavonic єстъ (estŭ), Russian есть (jestʹ), Lithuanian dialectal ẽsti, Old Prussian ast), initially with basically existential (“there is”) meaning, but later on extending to all copular meanings, thus replacing *esti. In Sudovian, also the first person…

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