urchar

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor m, verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“increase, extend, prolong”),[2] from Proto-Celtic *ɸarekoros. See fo·ceird (“to cast”).

Pronunciation

Noun

urchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)

  1. cast, shot
  2. (typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
  3. round (of ammunition)
  4. (athletics) starting gun

Declension

Declension of urchar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative urchar urchair
vocative a urchair a urchara
genitive urchair urchar
dative urchar urchair
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-urchar na hurchair
genitive an urchair na n-urchar
dative leis an urchar
don urchar 		leis na hurchair

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of urchar
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
urchar n-urchar hurchar t-urchar

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

References

  1. ^ “urchar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 250, page 125
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 138, page 54

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