sodar

English

Etymology

Short for sonic detection and ranging; compare radar, sonar.

Pronunciation

Noun

sodar (countable and uncountable, plural sodars)

  2. (uncountable) A system resembling sonar but used in the air, for meteorological measurements, rather than in water.
  3. (countable) A type of system using such a method, differentiated by platform, configuration, frequency, power, and other technical attributes.
  4. (countable) An installation of such a system or of the transmitting and receiving apparatus.

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠɔd̪ˠəɾˠ/[1], /ˈsˠɞd̪ˠəɾˠ/[2]

Noun

sodar m (genitive singular sodair)

  1. (functioning as a verbal noun) (act of) trotting (walk rapidly; move at a gait between walk and canter)
  2. a trot (gait of an animal between walk and canter; gait of a person faster than a walk)

Declension

Declension of sodar (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative sodar
vocative a shodair
genitive sodair
dative sodar
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an sodar
genitive an tsodair
dative leis an sodar
don sodar

Derived terms

  • ar sodar (“at a trot, on the double”)
  • bogshodar
  • de shodar (“at a trot, in a hurry”)
  • geamhshodar
  • gearrshodar
  • sodaire
  • sodar i ndiaidh (“toadying to, sucking up to”)
  • sodarnaíl

Mutation

Mutated forms of sodar
radical lenition eclipsis
sodar shodar
after an, tsodar 		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. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 177, page 90
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91

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