dorr

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See also: Dorr and dörr

English

Pronunciation

Noun

dorr (plural dorrs)

  1. A dor, or dorbeetle.
  2. (obsolete) A drone or idler; a lazy person.

References

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish doirr.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

dorr f (genitive singular doirre)

  1. (literary) anger

Declension

Declension of dorr (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative dorr
vocative a dhorr
genitive doirre
dative dorr
doirr (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an dorr
genitive na doirre
dative leis an dorr
leis an doirr (archaic, dialectal)
don dorr
don doirr (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

Interjection

dorr

  1. an expression of encouragement used to a dog

Mutation

Mutated forms of dorr
radical lenition eclipsis
dorr dhorr ndorr

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doirr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

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