# lear
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /lɪɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /lɪə/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /liə/
* (Scotland) IPA: /liːɹ/
* (East Anglia, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /lɛː/
* Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
* Homophones: leer; lair (cheer–chair merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.

#### Noun

lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)
* (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
* (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
** 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100:'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'
** 1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, Child's Ballads:They dressed up in maids' array, And passd for sisters fair; With ae consent gaed ower the sea, For to seek after lear.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”). Doublet of learn (Etymology 2).

#### Verb

lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared)
* (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
* (intransitive, archaic) To learn.

### Etymology 3

See lehr.

#### Noun

lear (plural lears)
* Alternative form of lehr

### Anagrams

* Arel, Earl, Elar, Lare, Rael, Raël, Real, earl, lare, rale, real

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* liar

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese liar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Latin ligāre. Compare Spanish liar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leˈaɾ/

### Verb

lear (first-person singular present leo, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado) lear (first-person singular present leio, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado, reintegrationist norm)
* (transitive) to wrap, coil
    Synonym: envurullar
* (transitive) to link
    Synonym: ligar
* (transitive) to entangle
    Synonyms: enlear, enredar
* (transitive) to roll (a cigarette)
* (pronominal) to wrestle, fight
    Synonyms: enlear, loitar, rifar, punar, barallar, desortir

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* enlear
* lea
* releante
* relear
* releón

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “liar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “liar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “lear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l̠ʲaɾˠ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish ler, from Proto-Celtic *liros. Cognate with Welsh llŷr.

#### Noun

lear m (genitive singular lir)
* (literary or archaic, except in phrases) sea, ocean

##### Derived terms

* thar lear (“overseas”)

#### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ler”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “lear”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 426
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lear m (genitive singular lear, nominative plural learanna)
* (mental) defect
    Tá lear air.He's wrong in the head, he's touched.

#### Further reading

* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lear”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81

## Volapük
### Noun

lear (nominative plural lears)
* olive tree

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English lere, from Old English *lǣre, gelǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *lāʀi, *lāʀī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛːr/

### Adjective

lear
* empty
** 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:At ye mye ne'er be wooveless ta vill a lear jock an cooan.That you may never be unprovided to fill an empty jack and can.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52