lár

lár

1. inflection of lá:
   1. indefinite genitive singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

From Old Irish lár, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlārom (compare Welsh llawr and Breton leur), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-r- (compare Old English flōr), from *pleh₂-.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠæːɾˠ/

lár m (genitive singular láir, nominative plural láir)

1. middle

   Tá muid áit éigin sa lár idir Baile Átha Cliath agus Corcaigh.

   We're somewhere in the middle between Dublin and Corc.

2. center

   An Lár ― City Centre (seen on signs in Dublin)

3. ground, floor

   Synonym: orlár

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lár”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “lár”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlārom (compare Welsh llawr), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-r- (compare Old English flōr), from *pleh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /l͈aːr/

lár n

1. surface, ground, floor
2. middle, interior

• Irish: lár
• Manx: laare
• Scottish Gaelic: làr
• ⇒ Middle Irish: urlár, airlár, erlar, irlár, orlár
  • Irish: urlár
  • Scottish Gaelic: ùrlar

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