bior

• (Munster, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɨ̞ɾˠ/^[1][2]
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪɾˠ/^[3]

From Old Irish bir (“stake”).^[4]

bior m (genitive singular beara, nominative plural bioranna)

1. point, tip
2. spike
3. spur
4. pin
5. (cooking) spit
6. (cricket) point, fielding position between gully and cover

• Alternative genitive plural: bear

From Old Irish bir (“water; spring, well, stream”).^[5]

bior m (genitive singular beara)

1. (literary) water

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bior	bhior	mbior
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bior”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish bir (“stake”).

• IPA^(key): /piɾ/

bior m (genitive singular biora, plural bioran)

1. spike, tine, prong
2. spit, skewer
3. pin, prick, thorn
4. cusp

• air bhioran (“excited”)

• bioran
• biorag
• biorach
• bioranach

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
bior	bhior
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bior”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language