cair
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CAIR¹
proper noun
- Acronym of Clean Air Interstate Rule
- Acronym of Council on American-Islamic Relations
- Abbreviation of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
noun
- Acronym of confidential aviation incident reporting
- Abbreviation of carboxyaminoimidazole ribotide
cair²
Where it comes from
From Middle English cairen, kayren, from Old Norse keyra (“to whip, lash, fling, toss, prick on, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *kaurijaną (“to turn, sweep”). Cognate with Icelandic keyra (“to run, drive, urge”), Swedish köra (“to drive, go, run”), Danish køre (“to drive”), Norwegian Bokmål kjøre (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk køyra (“to drive”), Old English ċierran (“to turn, change, go, come”). More at char.
verb cairs · cairing · caired
- To go.
- To carry.
- To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
cair³
noun cairs
- Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”).
Talk about this word "cair." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cair. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cair. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cair "cair." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cair.Cite this
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title = {cair},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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