náir

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See also: nair, Nair, and naïr

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish nár,[3] from Proto-Celtic *nāros (“noble? modest?”), either from a lengthened o-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr (“man, manliness”)[4] or from a Proto-Indo-European *neh₂-sr- (“fearful”) and thus related to Hittite 𒈾𒄴𒊭𒅈𒉡𒍣 (na-aḫ-ša-ar-nu-zi /⁠naḫšarnuzi⁠/, “to frighten”).[5][6][7]

Adjective

náir (genitive singular feminine náire, plural náire, comparative náire)

  1. ashamed
    is náir liom (go) […] ― I am ashamed (that)
  2. modest
  3. shameful
  4. (literary) noble, honourable

Declension

Declension of náir
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative náir náir náire
Vocative náir náire
Genitive náire náire náir
Dative náir náir náire
Comparative níos náire
Superlative is náire

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “náir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “nár”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 508
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 nár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*nāro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 284
  5. ^ Tischler, Johann (1990–2006) Hethitisches etymologisches Glossar (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 20) (in German), volume 2, Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, page 247
  6. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*neh₂-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 449
  7. ^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 592

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