oirthear

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Irish

Etymology

From oir- (“facing, front, east”) + thear (“beyond”, literally “facing the horizon”), from Old Irish.

Pronunciation

Noun

oirthear m (genitive singular oirthir)

  1. (literary) front, front part
  2. east (any absolute geographic location as one faces the rising sun), eastern part
    1. The East (of any geographic place)

Declension

Declension of oirthear (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative oirthear
vocative a oirthir
genitive oirthir
dative oirthear
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-oirthear
genitive an oirthir
dative leis an oirthear
don oirthear

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

See also

  • anoir (“from the east”)
  • soir (“to the east”)
  • thoir (“in the east”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of oirthear
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oirthear n-oirthear hoirthear t-oirthear

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 51

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