siar

From Middle High German schier, from Old High German skiaro (“fast, immediately”). Cognate with German schier.

siar

1. (Sette Comuni) almost

   'Z ist siar sait so imbaisan.

   It's almost time for dinner.

• “siar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

siar

1. used to express a quality of being slightly in one direction

   Tunuaamitsiarit!

   Move a little backwards!

   Ungasiarpoq.

   He is rather far away.

Borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *s(w)esō; compare Lithuanian sesuo.

siar (genitive sissaaren, partitive siaart)

1. sister

From Old Irish síar

• IPA^(key): /ʃiəɾˠ/

siar

1. (destination) westerly, to the west

siar

1. west, westward
2. back, to the rear
   • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:

     Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.

     A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.

• This word refers only to an ultimate destination of movement (i.e., "to the west").
• The adjective is indeclinable in Irish

siar

1. western, west

• an iar

• sear

• An Cuan Siar
• Eileanan Siar

siar

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

• odang