fàire

See also: faire and fairé

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Possibly from fàir (“dawn”), from Middle Irish fáir, from Proto-Celtic *wāris (“sunrise”).

Noun

fàire f (genitive singular fàire, plural fàirean)

1. horizon, skyline

Usage notes

• Used without the definite article:

  chuala sinn coisiche air fàire - we saw a walker on the horizon

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “fàir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN