# soir
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French soir, from earlier seir, from Latin sērō (“late”, adverb), from sērus (“late”).

### Pronunciation

* (Europe) IPA: /swaʁ/
* Audio (France):(file)
* (standard Canadian French) IPA: /swɑːʁ/
* (Québec: Gaspésie and Acadia) IPA: /swɛː(ɾ)/
* (Québec: Montréal, joual) IPA: /swɛːʁ/, /sweʁ/
* (Québec: popular, informal) IPA: /swɔːʁ/
* Audio (Quebec):(file)
* (Louisiana) IPA: /swar/, [swɒ(ɾ)]
* Homophone: seoir
* Rhymes: -waʁ

### Noun

soir m (plural soirs)
* evening

#### Derived terms

* bonsoir
* coup d’un soir
* du matin au soir
* étoile du soir
* histoire du soir

### See also

* soirée

### Verb

soir (defective)
* post-1990 spelling of seoir

#### Related terms

* assoir

### References

* Office québécois de la langue française, Rectifications liées à la suppression d’anomalies, vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca

### Further reading

* “soir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* rois

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish sair. Variant of the synonym an ear, from Old Irish an air (“from before”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /sˠɪɾʲ/
* (Connacht) IPA: /sˠɛɾʲ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ʃɛɾʲ/ (as if spelled seir)

### Adjective

soir
* east, eastern (static position)

### Adverb

soir
* east, eastward

#### Usage notes

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

#### See also

| Point of reference | Motion toward | Stationary position at | Stationary position on the indicated side | Motion from |
| above, up | suas | thuas | lastuas | anuas |
| below, down | síos | thíos | laistíos | aníos |
| east | soir | thoir | lastoir | anoir |
| west/back | siar | thiar | laistiar | aniar |
| north | ó thuaidh | thuaidh | lastuaidh | aduaidh |
| south | ó dheas | theas | laisteas | aneas |
| northeast | soir ó thuaidh | thoir thuaidh | — | anoir aduaidh |
| northwest | siar ó thuaidh | thiar thuaidh | — | aniar aduaidh |
| southeast | soir ó dheas | thoir theas | — | anoir aneas |
| southwest | siar ó dheas | thiar theas | — | aniar aneas |
| over there | sall | thall | lastall | anall |
| over here | — | — | — | anonn |
| inside | isteach | istigh | laistigh | — |
| outside | amach | amuigh | lasmuigh | — |

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 89, page 36

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “soir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71

## Occitan
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from French soir. Compare the inherited Occitan form ser, seir.

### Noun

soir m (plural soirs)
* evening

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* seir
* ser

### Etymology

From earlier seir, from Latin sērō (“late”, adverb), from sērus (“late”).

### Noun

soir oblique singular, m (oblique plural soirs, nominative singular soirs, nominative plural soir)
* evening

#### Descendants

* French: soir
* Norman: sei
* Picard: soir

## Picard
### Etymology

From Old French soir, from earlier seir, from Late Latin sēra, from ellipsis of Latin sēra diēs, from sērus (“late”).

### Noun

soir m
* evening