Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish airthear, from air- (“front, east”) + tar (“over, across”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeɾʲhəɾˠ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɔːɾˠhiːɾʲ/[3]
Noun
oirthear m (genitive singular oirthir)
- (literary) front, front part
- east (any absolute geographic location as one faces the rising sun), eastern part
- The East (of any geographic place)
Declension
Declension of oirthear (first declension, no plural)
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Coordinate terms
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Derived terms
- in oirthear
- um an oirthear
- um an oirthear arís
See also
Mutation
Mutated forms of oirthear
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| oirthear
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n-oirthear
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hoirthear
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t-oirthear
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airthear”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ar I (a)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 51
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