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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
úir f (genitive singular úire)
- earth, soil
- Synonym: talamh
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
úir
- inflection of úr:
- vocative/genitive singular masculine
- (archaic) dative singular feminine
Noun
úir
- vocative/genitive singular of úr
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| úir
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n-úir
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húir
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, 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