acair

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡirʲ/

Verb

acair

  1. second-person singular imperative of ad·gair

Verb

·acair

  1. third-person singular present indicative prototonic of ad·gair

Mutation

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

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

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaxkɪɾʲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ancaire, accaire, from Latin ancora and Old Norse akkeri.

Noun

acair f (genitive singular acrach, plural acraichean)

  1. (nautical) anchor
  2. stone (originally one used as an anchor)
  3. handscrew
  4. (architecture) stone to hold the thatch of a house in place

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Noun

acair f (genitive singular acrach, plural acraichean)

  1. alternative form of acaire (“acre”)
  2. (agriculture) small stack of corn on field

Further reading

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

Mutation

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

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

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