lire
noun
Meaning
- Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
- The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.
- The cheek.
- Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue.
- The Manx shearwater (bird).
- plural of lira
Etymology / origin
From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).
- lår(Swedish)→
- lies(Dutch)→
- *lekʷs-(ine-pro)→
- *ligwizô(gem-pro)→
- līra(ang)→
- lire(enm)→
- lire (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog
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