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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish errach, from Proto-Celtic *wesrakos, enlargement of Proto-Celtic *wesr-, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (compare Ancient Greek ἔαρ (éar), Latin vēr, Lithuanian vãsara (“summer”), Polish wiosna, Sanskrit वसन्त (vasanta, “summer”), वसर् (vasar, “in the morning”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
earrach m (genitive singular earraigh, nominative plural earraigh)
- spring (season)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| earrach
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n-earrach
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hearrach
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t-earrach
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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
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 417
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 errach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “earraċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 279
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 26
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “earrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 44
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish errach, from Proto-Celtic *wesrakos, enlargement of Proto-Celtic *wesr-, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (compare Latin vēr, Lithuanian vãsara (“summer”), Polish wiosna, Sanskrit वसन्त (vasanta, “summer”), वसर् (vasar, “in the morning”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
earrach m (genitive singular earraich, plural earraichean or earraich)
- spring (season)
- as t-earrach ― in spring
- Th' an t-earrach a' tighinn. ― Spring is coming.
Mutation
See also
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “earrach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 errach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language