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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cáer (“berry, lump of metal”).[1] Further etymology unknown.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
caor f (genitive singular caoire, nominative plural caora)
- berry
- round thing; ball
- glowing object
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| caor
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chaor
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gcaor
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “cáer”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-8
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 27
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 102
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caor”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caor”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “caor”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024