úir

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See also: ùir

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)

  1. earth, soil
    Synonym: talamh
Declension
Declension of úir (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative úir
vocative a úir
genitive úire
dative úir
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an úir
genitive na húire
dative leis an úir
don úir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

úir

  1. inflection of úr:
    1. vocative/genitive singular masculine
    2. (archaic) dative singular feminine

Noun

úir

  1. vocative/genitive singular of úr

Mutation

Mutated forms of úir
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
úir n-úir húir not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561
  4. ^ 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
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