ùrlar

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See also: urlar and urlár

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish urlár[1] (compare Irish urlár).

Pronunciation

Noun

ùrlar m (genitive singular ùrlair, plural ùrlaran)

  1. floor
    air an ùrlar ― on the floor
  2. (music) theme, motif
    1. (pìobaireachd) the ground, the first movement in a pìobaireachd composition, a highly ornamented theme

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Mutation

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ùrlar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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