dáiríre

Irish

Alternative forms

  • dá ríribh (obsolete)
  • dáirírí, dáiríribh

Etymology

From Middle Irish darírib,[1] apparently from de ḟírib (literally “from truths”), but the source of the first r is unclear; it may have arise through conflation with expressions like ar fír (literally “on truth”) and iar fír (literally “through truth”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

dáiríre

  1. seriously, in earnest

Derived terms

  • dáiríre fíre, dáiríre píre (“really and truly”)
  • i ndáiríre (“in earnest”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of dáiríre
radical lenition eclipsis
dáiríre dháiríre ndáiríre

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “darírib”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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