úir
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See also: ùir
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Irish úr,[2] fúr, from Proto-Celtic *swūr.[3] Alternatively, connected with Proto-Germanic *ōra, *ūra- (“ferriferous sand”) (see Dutch oer) and possibly *auraz (“wet earth, mud”).[4]
Noun[edit]
úir f (genitive singular úire)
Declension[edit]
Declension of úir
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Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective[edit]
úir
Noun[edit]
úir
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| úir | n-úir | húir | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References[edit]
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 úir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561
- ^ Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012