# gaire
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *waigaro, related to *waigr (“resistant”). Compare Occitan gaire, Piedmontese vaire, French guère.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡaj.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡaj.ɾe]

### Adjective

gaire m or f (masculine and feminine plural gaires or gaire)
* (in negative constructions) not much, hardly any
    No té gaire diners. ― He hardly has any money.
* (in interrogative constructions) any
    Que té gaire diners? ― Has he got any money?
* (in negative constructions) not many, hardly any
    No té gaires alumnes. ― He hardly has any students.
* (in interrogative constructions) any
    Que té gaires alumnes? ― Has he got any students?

### Adverb

gaire
* (in negative constructions) not much, hardly any
    No en queda gaire. ― There is hardly any left.
    No va dir gaire res. ― She hardly said anything.
* (in interrogative constructions) any much
    Que en queda gaire? ― Is there any much left?

#### Derived terms

* gairebé

### References

* “gaire” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gaire”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gaire” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gaire” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡaɾʲə/

### Etymology 1

From Middle Irish gaire. By surface analysis, gar +‎ -e.

#### Noun

gaire f (genitive singular gaire, nominative plural)
* nearness, proximity

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
gaire
vocative
a ghaire
genitive
gaire
dative
gaire
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an ghaire
genitive
na gaire
dative
leis an ngaire don ghaire :

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

gaire
* inflection of gar:
** genitive feminine singular
** comparative degree

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan gaire.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

gaire
* barely, hardly

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* gaires, guaire, guaires, guere, gueres, waires

### Etymology

Of Germanic origin, borrowed from Frankish *waigaro, related to *waigr (“resistant”) (source of modern German unweigerlich (“unevitable”), Middle High German unweiger (“not very”)).

### Adverb

gaire
* (chiefly with "ne") hardly; almost not at all

#### Descendants

* Middle French: guiere, guere
** French: guère

### References

* ↑ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*waigaro”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 469

### Further reading

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (guaire, supplement)
* gueres on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

Of Germanic origin, borrowed from Frankish *waigaro, related to *waigr (“resistant”) (source of modern German unweigerlich (“unevitable”), Middle High German unweiger (“not very”)). Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French gaire.

### Adverb

gaire
* (chiefly with "ne") hardly; almost not at all

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*waigaro”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 469
* “guère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.