eochair

• IPA^(key): /ˈoxəɾʲ/
• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɞxəɾʲ/^[1]

From Middle Irish eochair, from Old Irish eochair, from Proto-Celtic *exs-koris, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“turn, curve”) (whence Latin curvus).^[2] Compare Scottish Gaelic iuchair.

eochair f (genitive singular eochrach, nominative plural eochracha)

1. key

   An bhfuil eochair an tí agat? ― Do you have the house key?

2. (music) key; clef

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eochair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eoċair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 287
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 eochair, echair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Irish ochair, a specialized use of fochair (“nearness, proximity”).

eochair f (genitive singular eochrach, nominative plural eochracha)

1. brim, brink, edge, border

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eochair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eoċair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 287
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “7 eochair, ochair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Irish iuchair.

eochair f (genitive singular eochra, nominative plural eochraí)

1. alternative form of eochraí (“spawn, fish roe”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eochair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eoċair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 287
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “iuchair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *exs-koris, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“turn, curve”) (whence cor and more distantly Latin curvus).^[1]

eochair f

1. key
   • Old Irish treatise on the Psalter, published in Hibernica Minora, (1894, Oxford: Clarendon Press), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, line 216

     Is foa n-indas-sin ro·gab in saltair .i. forgnuis óin-libuir dianechtair ocus ilsailm hi mmedón, fo chosmailius nacha tegdaise adamra co scrínaib ilardaib co n-itsudaib mrechtnaigdib, co n-eochraib saingnustaib do erslocud cach aí. Atá didiu eochair saingnuste ré cach salm .i. a thitul.

     In [that way] is the Psalter, to wit, the form of one book [on the outside], and many psalms within, like some glorious building with many shrines, with various treasure-houses, with special keys to open each one of them. There is however a special key before each psalm, to wit, its title.

• Middle Irish: eochair, echair
  • Irish: eochair
  • Scottish Gaelic: iuchair
  • Manx: ogher

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