urchar
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish airchor m, verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“increase, extend, prolong”).[2] See fo·ceird (“to cast”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɾˠʌxəɾˠ/[3]
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈʊɾˠəxəɾˠ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈʌɾˠəxəɾˠ/[4]
Noun
editurchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)
- cast, shot
- (typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
- round (of ammunition)
- (athletics) starting gun
Declension
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Derived terms
edit- urchar cnoic (“louping ill”)
- urchar díobhaill (“louping ill”)
- urchar díslí (“cast of dice”)
- urchar gunna (“gunshot”)
- urchar millte (“louping ill”)
- urchar spóil (“throw of shuttle (in loom)”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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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
edit- ^ “urchar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 250, page 125
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 138, page 54
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urchar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (turn)
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- ga:Typography
- ga:Athletics
- Irish first-declension nouns