mothar

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish mothar.[1]

Noun

mothar m (genitive singular mothair, nominative plural mothair)

  1. thicket, covert, grove
  2. jungle, tangled mass, overgrown wilderness
  3. clump, cluster (of trees)
  4. obscurity (darkness)
  5. swell on the high sea (series of waves, lasting after the wind has ceased)
  6. wheeze or rattle in the throat or chest

Declension

Declension of mothar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative mothar mothair
vocative a mhothair a mhothara
genitive mothair mothar
dative mothar mothair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mothar na mothair
genitive an mhothair na mothar
dative leis an mothar
don mhothar 		leis na mothair

Mutation

Mutated forms of mothar
radical lenition eclipsis
mothar mhothar not applicable

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), “mothar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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