urchair

Irish

Noun

urchair m

  1. inflection of urchar:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor (“cast, shot”). See foceird (“to cast”).

Noun

urchair f (genitive singular urchaire or urchrach or urchaireach, plural urchraichean)

  1. missile, projectile
  2. shot

Derived terms
  • leig urchair (“fire, shoot at”)
  • urchair chloiche (“stonecast, throw with a stone or hammer”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
urchairn-urchairh-urchairt-urchair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “urchair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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