eaghtyr

From Old Irish úachtar, óchtar (“top, surface, cream”), from Proto-Celtic *ouxsterom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewp-s- (“high”). Cognate with Irish uachtar and Scottish Gaelic uachdar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɨəxtər/

eaghtyr m (genitive singular eaghtyr, plural eaghtyryn)

1. surface, top (of water)

   Haink yn snauean er ash er yn eaghtyr. ― The float bobbed up again.

   Shey shiaghtooyn jeh eaghtyr ny cruinney, she ushtey sailjey. ― Six sevenths of the world's surface is water.

   Ta'n eeast shoh snaue er eaghtyr ny marrey. ― These fish swim on the top of the sea.

2. overburden, superstructure

• eaghtyr ny bainney
• eaghtyr-mynthey
• eaghtyrane

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