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urchar

urchar

Irish

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

Terms derived from urchar

urchar cnoic, urchar díobhaill, urchar millte ‎(“‘fairy dart’, louping-ill”)
urchar díslí ‎(“cast of dice”)

urchar gunna ‎(“gunshot”)

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.

References

"urchar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“airchor” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.