aréir

Irish

Alternative forms

  • 'réir (nonstandard)
  • araer, araoir, a-réir (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish irráir (the time before the dawn) (compare Scottish Gaelic a-raoir, Manx riyr).[2] aréir with /eː/ instead of expected *aráir may be in analogy with inné (yesterday).

Pronunciation

Adverb

aréir

  1. last night
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 100:
      vī fī ḱēm agń̥ ərḗŕ.
      [Bhí fiche céim againn aréir.]
      We had twenty degrees last night.

Derived terms

Noun

aréir

  1. last night

Derived terms

References

  1. aréir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “irráir”, 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, page 44
  4. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 100
  5. de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1953) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 1st edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 403 (p. 210)
  6. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 64

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