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iolair m

inflection of iolar ‎(“eagle”):
1. vocative singular
2. genitive singular
3. nominative plural
4. dative plural

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

From Middle Irish ilar (compare Irish iolar), from Old Irish irar (compare Welsh eryr, Breton erer), from Proto-Indo-European *or ‎(“large bird”).

iolair f ‎(genitive singular iolaire or iolarach or iolrach, plural iolairean)

Terms derived from iolair

iolair-bhàn, iolair-chladaich, iolair-mhara, iolair-riabhach, iolair sùil na gréine ‎(“sea eagle, white-tailed eagle”)
iolair-bhreac ‎(“greater spotted eagle”)
iolair-bhuidhe, iolair-mhonaidh ‎(“golden eagle”)

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
“2 ilar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.