dér

dér

1. der, with emphasis

Of unknown origin.^[1]

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• Rhymes: -eːr

dér (usually uncountable, plural derek)

1. frost

• dér in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• dér in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Proto-Celtic *dakrom, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru. Celtic cognates include Welsh deigryn and Cornish dager. More distant Indo-European relatives include Old Norse tár, Old Armenian արտասուք (artasukʻ), Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru), and Latin lacrima.^[1]

• dǽr (Milan glosses)

dér n (nominative plural dér)

1. tear, teardrop (from the eyes)

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23^a13

  .i. robtar lugu na dǽr quam ad·fiadatar.

  i.e. the tears were fewer than are related.

• c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 66, pages 115-179:

  Níco[n]·tald-som iarum dér dia gruad statim co·tánic dochum Findio.

  Immediately thereafter, he did not wipe the tear from his cheek until he came to Findio.

• Middle Irish: dér f
  • Irish: deoir
  • Scottish Gaelic: deur
  • Manx: jeir

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

·dér

1. third-person singular future/present subjunctive prototonic of do·éirig