saor - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠeːɾˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /sˠiːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /sˠiːɾˠ/, (older) /sˠɯːɾˠ/

From Middle Irish saer, from Old Irish sóer, from Proto-Celtic *su-wiros (“good man”).

saor (genitive singular masculine saoir, genitive singular feminine saoire, plural saora, comparative saoire)

1. free (not imprisoned; unconstrained; without obligations; (of software) with very few restrictions on distribution or improvement)
   1. (literary) having freeman status, enfranchised; noble
   2. independent
   3. disengaged
   4. unrestrained, unrestricted
   5. not fixed or combined
   6. blameless, innocent (ar, ó (“of”))
   7. immune, exempt (ar, ó (“from”))
   8. safe (ó (“from”))
   9. (literary, of things) choice
2. (grammar) autonomous (of Celtic verb forms similar in meaning to the passive voice)
3. cheap, inexpensive

Although ‘free’ is the most common translation of this word, it does not mean ‘free of charge, gratis’, but rather ‘cheap, inexpensive’ in reference to goods or services being exchanged. The term for ‘free of charge’ is in aisce.

• (antonym(s) of “cheap, inexpensive”): daor

saor (present analytic saorann, future analytic saorfaidh, verbal noun saoradh, past participle saortha) (transitive)

1. (literary) raise to free status, enfranchise
2. free, liberate
3. save, redeem
4. acquit, exonerate
5. free, exempt, deliver (ar, ó (“from”))
6. (with de) rid of

• saoirse (“freedom”)
• cluiche saor (“bye”)

From Middle Irish saer, from Old Irish sáer, from Proto-Celtic *saɸiros, from Proto-Indo-European *sapiros, from *sap- (“skill”). Cognate with Welsh saer (“carpenter; mason”).

saor m (genitive singular saoir, nominative plural saoir)

1. craftsman
2. (stone)mason
3. artificer

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saor”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “saor”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 saer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 saer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 49

• IPA^(key): /s̪ɯːɾ/

From Old Irish sóer, from Proto-Celtic *su-wiros (“good man”).

saor (comparative saoire)

1. free
2. cheap

• (antonym(s) of “cheap”): daor

saor (past shaor, future saoraidh, verbal noun saoradh, past participle saorte)

1. free, rescue, save
2. clear, redeem
3. cheapen

From Old Irish sáer, from Proto-Celtic *saɸiros, from Proto-Indo-European *sapiros, from *sap- (“skill”).

saor m (genitive singular saoir, plural saoir)

1. joiner
2. carpenter

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “saor”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “saor”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[3], Stirling, →ISBN, page 302
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 saer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 saer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• saore

From Latin sapor, sapōrem. Compare Italian sapore.

saor m (plural saori)

1. taste, flavour
2. sauce