àr

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German Low German

Conjunction

àr

  1. (Westphalian) Alternative form of àder

Mandarin

Romanization

àr (ar4, Zhuyin ㄚˋㄦ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of R

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ár (slaughter), from Proto-Celtic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵro- (hunt); compare Greek ἄγρα (ágra, hunt).

Noun

àr m (genitive singular àir, plural àir)

  1. slaughter, carnage (more severe than marbh).

Mutation

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

References

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “àr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “àr”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language