vír

See also: vir, Vir, VIR, Vir., viř, and -vir-

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech vír, from Proto-Slavic *virъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈviːr]
  • Rhymes: -iːr
  • Homophone: výr

Noun

vír m inan (diminutive vírek)

  1. whirlpool

Declension

Further reading

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (wire) from Proto-Indo-European *weyro- (a twist, thread, cord, wire), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (to turn, twist, weave, plait).

Noun

vír m (genitive singular vírs, nominative plural vírar)

  1. wire

Declension

Declension of vír (masculine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vír vírinn vírar vírarnir
accusative vír vírinn víra vírana
dative vír vírnum vírum vírunum
genitive vírs vírsins víra víranna

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *virъ. First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viːr/, [ˈʋiːr]
  • Rhymes: -iːr
  • Homophone: výr

Noun

vír m inan

  1. vortex, whirlpool, eddy (a powerful, circular current of water or air that spins around a central axis)
    Synonyms: krútňava, cyklón, smršť
    vodný vírwhirlpool
    riečny víreddy
    snehový vírsnowspout
    vzdušný vírwhirlwind
  2. (figuratively) swirl, whirl, vortex (a chaotic or rapid sequence of events or emotions that feels overwhelming)
    Synonyms: ruch, zhon, trma-vrma, virvar, frmol, murmaj, tumult, chaos
    Po rokoch života v tichej dedine si ťažko zvykala na vír veľkomesta.After years of living in a quiet village, she found it hard to adjust to the hustle and bustle of the big city.

Declension

Declension of vír
(pattern dub)
singularplural
nominativevírvíry
genitivevíruvírov
dativevíruvírom
accusativevírvíry
locativevírevíroch
instrumentalvíromvírmi

Derived terms

  • rozvíriť
  • víriť
  • zvíriť

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “vír”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 663

Further reading

  • vír”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026