úir

See also: ùir

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /uːɾʲ/[1]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish úr,[2] fúr, from Proto-Celtic *swūr.[3] Alternatively, connected with Proto-Germanic *ōra, *ūra- (“ferriferous sand”) (see Dutch oer) and possibly *auraz (“wet earth, mud”).[4]

Noun

úir f (genitive singular úire)

  1. earth, soil
    Synonym: talamh
Declension
Declension of úir

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative úir
Vocative a úir
Genitive úire
Dative úir

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an úir
Genitive na húire
Dative leis an úir

don úir

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

úir

  1. inflection of úr:
    1. vocative/genitive singular masculine
    2. (archaic) dative singular feminine

Noun

úir

  1. vocative/genitive singular of úr

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
úir n-úir húir not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 úir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561
  4. Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012
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