Irish

Noun

dair f ‎(genitive singular darach, nominative plural daracha)

1. oak

Declension

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Old Irish

Etymology

From earlier daur, from Proto-Celtic *daru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru; compare Ancient Greek δόρυ ‎(dóru, “tree”).

Alternative forms

• (early) daur

Noun

dair f ‎(genitive dara or darach)

1. oak
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 38^a9

     quercus .i. daur

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 33^a5

     is clí darach Moysi

     oaken pillar of Moses

Inflection

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Descendants

• Irish: dair
• Manx: darragh
• Scottish Gaelic: darach

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