urú

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "uru"

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ur- (“before, over”) +‎ dubhadh (“blackening, darkening”). By surface analysis, uraigh +‎ -ú, though etymologically the verb is a back-formation from the verbal noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

urú m (genitive singular uraithe, nominative plural uruithe)

  1. verbal noun of uraigh
  2. (astronomy) eclipse
    Synonym: éiclips
  3. (linguistics) eclipsis, nasalization

Declension

Declension of urú

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative urú uruithe
Vocative a urú a uruithe
Genitive uraithe uruithe
Dative urú uruithe

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-urú na huruithe
Genitive an uraithe na n-uruithe
Dative leis an urú

don urú

leis na huruithe

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
urú n-urú hurú t-urú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “urú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 207
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 142, page 56

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