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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish dáir (“bulling, heat”), from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dáir f (genitive singular dárach)
- heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64:tā n wō fȳ ʒāŕ. tā dāŕ eŕ ə mō.- [Tá an bhó faoi dháir. Tá dáir ar a mbó.]
- The cow is in heat.
Declension
Mutation
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Lenition
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dháir
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ndáir
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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
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dáir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58
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