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tīrs

Pronunciation: [tīːɾs]

“tīrs” is a Latvian word. Its 12 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. clean (which is not dirty, has no stains, no undesirable substances, etc.)
  2. clean (such that it has no dirt, stains, etc. on any body part, clothes, etc.)
  3. pure, clean (not containing any unnecessary or undesirable impurities)
  4. clean (such that it does not pollute the environment)
  5. clean, empty, clear (in which something is not; which is not filled with, taken by, something; from which something was removed)
  6. net (calculated by excluding certain component elements)
  7. pure (such that no other species are involved in its origin)
  8. pure, genuine, real (such that no other ethnic or social group, no other kinds of people are involved in a person's origin)
  9. pure (existing by itself, without depending on others; not applied, not used for some goal outside of itself)
  10. clean, pure, perfect (fully meeting a certain set of requirements, criteria, ideals, etc.)
  11. pure, innocent (which corresponds consistently to certain moral norms or ideals)
  12. pure, sheer, perfect (which has all the relevant features and characteristics of its type)

Etymology

From the past tense stem *tīr- of an earlier verb *tirt (“to rub”), from Proto-Baltic *tir-, from the zero grade *tr̥- of Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to rub, to rub by turning, twisting; to turn, to drill”), whence also Latvian trīt (“to whet”), and also Russian тереть (teretʹ, “to rub, to scrub”), dialectal тирать (tiratʹ). Cognates include Lithuanian tyrùs (“bright, light, clean; fresh; without…

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