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Irish
Etymology
The archaic dative form of Old Irish ríar (“will, wish, demand, request; decision”) (compare modern riar).
Pronunciation
Noun
réir f (genitive singular réire)
- wish, will
- command, bidding
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “réir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ríar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
réir
- inflection of ríar:
- dative/accusative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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réir also rréir after a proclitic ending in a vowel
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réir pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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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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