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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish airchor m, verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (increase, extend, prolong).[2] See fo·ceird (to cast).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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urchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)

  1. cast, shot
  2. (typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
  3. round (of ammunition)
  4. (athletics) starting gun

Declension

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Declension of urchar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative urchar urchair
vocative a urchair a urchara
genitive urchair urchar
dative urchar urchair
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-urchar na hurchair
genitive an urchair na n-urchar
dative leis an urchar
don urchar
leis na hurchair

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
urchar n-urchar hurchar t-urchar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ urchar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 250, page 125
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 138, page 54

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