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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish sár (“exceeding, excellent, very”), from sár m (“outrage, insult, humiliation, discomfiture, defeat; act of excelling, exceeding; that which excels, exceeds”).
Prefix
sár-
- exceeding, surpassing; excellent; ultra-, super-, most
- (chemistry) per-
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sár-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 sár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language