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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)
- verbal noun of uraigh
- (astronomy) eclipse
- Synonym: éiclips
- (linguistics) eclipsis, nasalization
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| urú
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n-urú
|
hurú
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t-urú
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airdubad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “urú” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “urú” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.