Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish púdar, borrowed from Anglo-Norman poudre, from Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”).
Pronunciation
Noun
púdar m (genitive singular púdair, nominative plural púdair)
- powder, dust
- gunpowder
- Synonym: púdar gunna
- Comhcheilg an Phúdair ― The Gunpowder Plot
Declension
Declension of púdar (first declension)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of púdar
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lenition
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eclipsis
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phúdar
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bpúdar
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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.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “púdar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “púdar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45