urú

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ur- (before, over) +‎ dubhadh (blackening, darkening). By surface analysis, uraigh +‎ , 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

Mutated forms of urú
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
urú n-urú hurú t-urú

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

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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