òr

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Lombard

Etymology

From Latin aurum.

Pronunciation

Noun

òr m

  1. gold

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin aurum.

Pronunciation

Noun

òr m

  1. gold

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ór, from Latin aurum.

Pronunciation

Noun

òr m (genitive singular òir, no plural)

  1. gold

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of òr
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
òr n-òr h-òr t-òr

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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