dàir

See also: dair and dáir

Mandarin

Romanization

dàir (dair4, Zhuyin ㄉㄞˋㄦ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 帶兒 / 带儿
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 袋兒 / 袋儿

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish *dârô, dairid, from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).[1]

Verb

dàir (past dhàir, future dàiridh, verbal noun dàir or dàireadh, past participle dàirte)

  1. rut, copulate

Noun

dàir f

  1. (Lewis) calving

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dàir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
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