àr

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ar"

German Low German

Conjunction

àr

  1. (Westphalian) alternative form of àder

Mandarin

Romanization

àr (ar4, Zhuyin ㄚˋㄦ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of R

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ár (“slaughter”), from Proto-Celtic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵro- (“hunt”); compare Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “hunt”).

Noun

àr m (genitive singular àir, plural àir)

  1. slaughter, carnage (more severe than marbh).

Mutation

Mutation of àr
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
àr n-àr h-àr t-àr

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “àr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “àr”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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