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OIr

OIr is the abbreviation of Old Irish.

OIr is the abbreviation of Old Iranian.

Meaning of Old Irish

Proper noun

Old Irish

  1. The Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries C.E., the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive texts (written in the Latin alphabet) are extant.
    Synonyms:
    Irishlandic

Meaning of Old Iranian

Proper noun

Old Iranian

  1. Collective name for a number of extinct Iranian languages which are descended from Proto-Iranian.

Questions about OIr

What is OIr the abbreviation of?
OIr is the abbreviation of Old Irish.

Words near OIr in the dictionary

  1. oints
  2. Oio
  3. oioxenous
  4. oipe
  5. oipes
  6. OIr
  7. oiran
  8. oirans
  9. Oirat
  10. Oirats
  11. Oird

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OIr (page history and authors); Old Irish (page history and authors); Old Iranian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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