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Old Irish
Etymology
From ar (“before”) + *fár (“dawn”) (> Middle Irish fáir). Compare camáir (“dawn”) (< co + *fár, literally “with dawn”). Cognate with Welsh gwawr (“dawn”).[1]
Adverb
irráir
- last night
Descendants
References
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “camáir, camaír”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-28
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