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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish saíthar,[1] from Proto-Celtic *saitrom, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-trom (“binding, fetter”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
saothar m (genitive singular saothair, nominative plural saothair)
- labour (work); toil, exertion; stress, effort
- gan saothar ― without effort
- work (product of labour)
- thing done, achievement
- works; literary or artistic composition
- (music) opus
- (music, literature) composition, piece
- job of destruction
- (literary) travail, pangs of childbirth
- evacuation of bowels; excrement
- (as verbal noun, ag ~) labouring, toiling
Declension
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Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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saothar
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shaothar after an, tsaothar
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not applicable
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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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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*saytro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 325
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 79
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44
Further reading
- “saothar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “saoṫar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 595
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saothar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “saothar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024