úathmar

Old Irish

Etymology

From úath (“fear, horror, terror”) +‎ -mar (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuːa̯θβ̃ar]

Adjective

úathmar

  1. dreadful, terrible, terrifying
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 45a6
      huathmar glosses terribile

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: fúathmar

Mutation

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

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

References

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