urchar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor m, verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“increase, extend, prolong”). See fo·ceird (“to cast”).

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈʊɾˠəxəɾˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠəxəɾˠ/

Noun

urchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)

cast, shot
(typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
round (of ammunition)
(athletics) starting gun

Declension

Declension of urchar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	urchar	urchair
Vocative	a urchair	a urchara
Genitive	urchair	urchar
Dative	urchar	urchair

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-urchar	na hurchair
Genitive	an urchair	na n-urchar
Dative	leis an urchar don urchar	leis na hurchair

Derived terms

urchar cnoic (“louping ill”)
urchar díobhaill (“louping ill”)
urchar díslí (“cast of dice”)
urchar gunna (“gunshot”)
urchar millte (“louping ill”)
urchar spóil (“throw of shuttle (in loom)”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urchar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 54

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.