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Mandarin
Romanization
dàir (dair4, Zhuyin ㄉㄞˋㄦ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 帶兒／带儿
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 袋兒／袋儿
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish *dârô, dairid, from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).[1]
Verb
dàir (past dhàir, future dàiridh, verbal noun dàir or dàireadh, past participle dàirte)
- rut, copulate
Noun
dàir f
- (Lewis) calving
References
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dàir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir