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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cethair, from Proto-Celtic *kʷetwores, from earlier Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Pronunciation
Numeral
ceathair
- four
Usage notes
- This form is used independently, not with a noun that it modifies. It is always preceded by the particle a.
- a ceathair, a cúig, a sé... ― four, five, six...
- deich a ceathair, deich a cúig, deich a sé... ― fourteen, fifteen, sixteen...
- bus a ceathair ― bus number four
- a ceathair a chlog ― four o’clock
Derived terms
- ceathrar (used to modify personal nouns)
- ceithre (used to modify non-personal nouns)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| ceathair
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cheathair
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gceathair
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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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