ór

See also: Appendix:Variations of "or"

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ór, from Latin aurum.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ór m (genitive singular óir)

  1. gold

Declension

Declension of ór (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative ór
vocative a óir
genitive óir
dative ór
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-ór
genitive an óir
dative leis an ór
don ór

Derived terms

  • mianadóir óir m (“gold-miner”)
  • órchloch f (“philosopher’s stone”, literally “goldstone”)
  • Órfhlaith f (name)
  • órga
  • órtháirgeach (“gold-bearing, auriferous”, adjective)
  • órthaisce f (“gold reserve”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ór
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ór n-ór hór t-ór

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ór”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 339, page 117

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aurum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [oːr]

Noun

ór n (genitive óir)

  1. gold

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative órN — —
vocative órN — —
accusative órN — —
genitive óirL — —
dative órL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

  • órdae

Descendants

  • Irish: ór
  • Manx: airh
  • Scottish Gaelic: òr

Mutation

Mutation of ór
radical lenition nasalization
ór
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 ór n-ór

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uz (“out of”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐍃 (us).

Preposition

ór (takes dative)

  1. out of, from
  2. made out of, denoting a substance
  3. from among (a group)
  4. denoting a cause
  5. beyond
  6. denoting absolute completeness, as in "utterly"

Descendants

  • Icelandic: úr
  • Faroese: úr
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: or; ur (dialectal)
  • Old Swedish: ūr
    • Swedish: ur
  • Old Gutnish: yr (< *ýʀ)
    • Gutnish: ör, öir

See also

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ór”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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