fiar

See feuar.

fiar (plural fiars)

1. (Scotland, law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
   • 1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf, 1831, A Complete Edition of the Waverley Novels, Volume 13, page 108,

     I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me, I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me (she's a life-renter, and I am fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen) would grant you a wadset, or an heritable bond, for the siller, and to pay the annual-rent half-yearly; and Saunders Wyliecoat to draw the bond, and you to be at nae charge wi' the writings.

2. The price of grain in the counties of Scotland, as legally fixed on an annual basis.
   • 1817, Committee members, Report respecting the Striking of the Fiars of Grain for the Crop of 1816 for the County of Lanark, The Farmers Magazine, Volume 18, page 310,

     It seems to be a practice as improper as it is unnecessary, to strike the fiars in three different qualities of the same species of grain; and it should, in our humble opinion, be discontinued.

   • 1842, Fife Fiars, from 1619 to 1841 Inclusive, page vi,

     It was answered by the Sheriff. 1st, That the Act of Sederunt did not impose any positive injunction on Sheriffs to strike Fiars; that if the Fiars were substantially just, the Court could have no power to reduce them; and that the Act of Sederunt had never been observed in East Lothian; […] .

   • 1852, George Paterson, Historical Account of the Fiars in Scotland, page 7,

     In further confirmation that this is not the date of the origin, it may be stated, that there is very early mention of Commissaries' Fiars, Sir John Connell tracing the commencement of these so far back as the Reformation, when Commissary or Consistorial Courts were established, in place of those of the bishops or their officials; and notice is taken of the Fiars prices of grain in the records of the Commissary Court so far back as 1564—somewhat earlier than the statute above quoted.

• fiars prices

• RIFA, fair

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *fidō, from Latin fīdō, fīdere (“to trust”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fiˈa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fiˈaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present fio, past participle fiat)

1. to sell on credit
2. (reflexive, fiar-se de) to trust

   Synonym: confiar

• “fiar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin ferrum. Compare Italian ferro, Romanian and Romansch fier, Friulian fiêr, French fer, Sardinian ferru, Spanish hierro.

fiar m

1. iron

From Late Latin fīlāre, from fīlum (“thread”). Compare Portuguese fiar, Spanish hilar, Italian filare, French filer.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present fío, first-person singular preterite fiei, past participle fiado)

1. to spin (to make yarn)
2. to string together, put together (words or ideas)

• fiado
• fiandeira
• fío

From Vulgar Latin *fidare, from Latin fīdō, fīdere (“to trust”).

• IPA^(key): /fiˈaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present fío, first-person singular preterite fiei, past participle fiado)

1. to guarantee
2. to sell on credit, give credit
3. to entrust
4. to confide

• confiar
• fe
• fiel
• fiúza

• “fiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fiar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “fiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fiar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fiar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fiar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Middle Irish fiar, from Proto-Celtic *wēros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁-y (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō).

• IPA^(key): /fʲiəɾˠ/

fiar m (genitive singular fiair, nominative plural fiara)

1. slant, tilt, bias, obliquity
2. bend, twist; crookedness, perverseness

fiar

1. slanting, tilted, oblique, diagonal, crosswise
2. bent, warped, crooked, perverse

fiar (present analytic fiarann, future analytic fiarfaidh, verbal noun fiaradh, past participle fiartha)

1. slant, tilt, veer, turn
2. bend, twist, distort

• “fíar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• "fiar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “fiar” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “fiar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin ferus (compare French fier).

fiar m

1. (Guernsey) pleased

From Late Latin fīlāre < Latin fīlum. Compare Spanish hilar, Italian filare, French filer.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfjaɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈah/, /fiˈaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present indicative fio, past participle fiado)

1. to spin (thread)

• fio

From Vulgar Latin *fidare, from Latin fidere, present active infinitive of fidō.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfjaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present indicative fio, past participle fiado)

1. (Portugal) to trust

• fiaraich (verb)

From Middle Irish fiar, from Proto-Celtic *wēros (compare Welsh gŵyr), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro-s (“turned, twisted”) (compare English wire), from *weh₁-y (“turn, twist”) (compare Old Church Slavonic вити (viti), Latin vieō).

fiar (past dh'fhiar, future fiaraidh, verbal noun fiaradh, past participle fiarte)

1. bend (become bended)
2. bend, slant, twist

fiar

1. bent, crooked
2. slanting, oblique
3. squinting (of an eye)
4. cunning, sly

From Vulgar Latin *fidare, from Latin fīdere, present active infinitive of fīdō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjaɾ/

fiar (first-person singular present fío, first-person singular preterite fie, past participle fiado)

1. to guarantee
2. to sell on credit, give credit, put on the slate
3. to entrust
4. to confide
5. (reflexive, fiarse de) to trust

   Synonym: confiar

• Rule: stressed í in certain conjugations; monosyllabic infinitives receive no written accent in certain conjugations. This change was put into effect in the 2010 spelling reforms by the RAE, so some other forms are still commonly seen.

• “fiar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.