ùrlar

See also: urlar and urlár

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish urlár[1] (compare Irish urlár).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuːrˠl̪ˠəɾ/, [ˈuːɹl̪ˠəɾ]
  • (Uist, Barra, Skye) IPA(key): /ˈũːl̪ˠaɾ/[2][3] (as if spelled unnlar)

Noun

ùrlar m (genitive singular ùrlair, plural ùrlaran)

  1. floor
    air an ùrlar ― on the floor
  2. (music) theme, motif
    1. (pìobaireachd) the ground, the first movement in a pìobaireachd composition, a highly ornamented theme

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

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

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 22

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ùrlar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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