# tyre
## English
### Etymology 1

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from attire, while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to tie. George Sturt in The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) makes a case for the latter derivation in that the metal tyre ('tyer') pulled the wooden wagon wheel tightly together when it shrank after being fitted red-hot. The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and most current and former Commonwealth nations after being revived in the 19th century. Both tyre and tire were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States and Canada did not adopt the revival of tyre, and tire is the only spelling currently used there.

#### Alternative forms

* tire (US)

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /taɪə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
* Homophone: tire

#### Noun

tyre (plural tyres) (British spelling, Irish, most current and former Commonwealth nations spelling)
* The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
    pneumatic tyres
    runflat tyres
* The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.
    Coordinate term: strakes
    iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse
    tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings
** 1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237:It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.

##### Derived terms

* all-weather tyre
* balloon tyre
* cushion tyre
* flat tyre
* pneumatic tyre
* radial tyre
* snow tyre
* spare tyre
* spare tyre well
* tundra tyre
* tyre barrier
* tyre bead
* tyre biter
* tyre blanket
* tyre chain
* tyre gauge
* tyre iron
* tyre kicker
* tyre lever
* tyre-pressure
* tyre-pressure gauge
* tyre warmer
* winter tyre

##### Descendants

* → Chamorro: taia'
* → Japanese: タイヤ (taiya)
* → Korean: 타이어 (taieo)
* → Malay: tayar
* → Welsh: teiar

##### Translations
#### Verb

tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)
* (transitive) To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
** 1929, The Listener, numbers 41-50, page 552:The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tamil தயிர் (tayir), itself from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of dahi.

#### Noun

tyre (uncountable)
* (India) Curdled milk.
** 1809, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, […] ‎, page 954:The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.

### Etymology 3

Possibly a shortening of attire.

#### Noun

tyre (uncountable)
* (obsolete) Attire.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre

#### Verb

tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)
* (obsolete) To adorn.

### References

* “tyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* reyt, tyer, Tyer, Trey, trey, trye

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* tyne [tynɛ] (Gheg)

### Determiner

i tyre m (feminine e tyre, masculine plural e tyre, feminine plural e tyre)
* their

#### Declension
### See also
## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtˢyːɐ]

### Etymology 1

Derived from the noun tyr (“bull”).

#### Verb

tyre (imperative tyr, infinitive at tyre, present tense tyrer, past tense tyrede, perfect tense har tyret)
* grind away at
* put down
* kick violently

##### Inflection

activepassive
present
tyrer
tyres
past
tyrede
tyredes
infinitive
tyre
tyres
imperative
tyr
participle
present
tyrende
past
tyret (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
tyren :

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tyre c
* indefinite plural of tyr

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* tyri

### Etymology

From Old Norse tyr(v)i n, from Proto-Germanic *terwią. Compare Swedish törve. Probably related to tjære.

### Noun

tyre m or n (definite singular tyren or tyret, indefinite plural tyrar or tyre, definite plural tyrane or tyra)
* fatwood

#### Related terms

* gadd
* lysterkorg
* tyrihjelm
* tyristake
* tyrispik

### References

* “tyre”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
* “tyre” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

### Anagrams

* ryte, yret, ytre