dáir

See also: dair and dàir

Irish

From Middle Irish dáir (“bulling, heat”),^[1] from the root of Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).^[2]

dáir f (genitive singular dárach)

heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64:
  tā n wō fȳ ʒāŕ. tā dāŕ eŕ ə mō.
  [Tá an bhó faoi dháir. Tá dáir ar a mbó.]
  The cow is in heat.

Declension of dáir (fifth declension, no plural)

bare forms
	singular
nominative	dáir
vocative	a dháir
genitive	dárach
dative	dáir dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an dáir
genitive	na dárach
dative	leis an dáir leis an dáraigh (archaic, dialectal) don dáir don dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Mutated forms of *dáir*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
dáir	dháir	ndáir

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dáir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dáir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 58