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urchair
urchair
Irish
Noun
urchair m
- vocative singular of urchar
- genitive singular of urchar
- nominative plural of urchar
- dative plural of urchar
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| urchair | n-urchair | hurchair | t-urchair |
| 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”).
Noun
urchair f (genitive singular urchaire or urchrach or urchaireach, plural urchraichean)
Derived terms
- leig urchair (“fire, shoot at”)
- urchair chloiche (“stonecast, throw with a stone or hammer”)
References
- 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
- “airchor” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.