tarr

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English

Noun

tarr (plural tarrs)

  1. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).

Albanian

Etymology

A o- grade continuing Proto-Albanian *tara, related to tjerr.

Verb

tarr (aorist tarra, participle tarrë)

  1. to cut (vine)

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “tarr”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 449

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish tarr, tairr (“belly, stomach”), from Proto-Celtic *tarrV- (“belly”), of uncertain origin; according to Matasovic, of non-Indo-European origin, but according to MacBain, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to turn, rub”), cognate with Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts, intestines”), Ancient Greek τάμισος (támisos, “rennet”).

Noun

tarr m (genitive singular tairr, nominative plural tairr)

  1. (anatomy) belly
  2. (biology) venter
  3. (architecture) soffit

Declension

Declension of tarr (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tarr tairr
vocative a thairr a tharra
genitive tairr tarr
dative tarr tairr
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tarr na tairr
genitive an tairr na dtarr
dative leis an tarr
don tarr 		leis na tairr

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tarr
radical lenition eclipsis
tarr tharr dtarr

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

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

tarr

  1. alternative form of ter
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