altair

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Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

altair

  1. (Munster, literary) second-person singular present indicative of alt

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
altair n-altair haltair not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish altóir, from Latin altar, altāre, altaria, from adoleō (“I burn”), influenced in form by altus (“high”).

Noun

altair f (genitive singular altrach, plural altraichean)

  1. altar

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
altair n-altair h-altair t-altair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “altair”, 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), “altóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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