staighre

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English steire, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”),[2] from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic staidhre.

Pronunciation

Noun

staighre f (genitive singular staighre, nominative plural staighrí)

  1. stairs (contiguous set of steps), a stairway

Declension

Declension of staighre (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative staighre staighrí
vocative a staighre a staighrí
genitive staighre staighrí
dative staighre staighrí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an staighre na staighrí
genitive na staighre na staighrí
dative leis an staighre
don staighre 		leis na staighrí

Derived terms

  • staighre beo (“escalator”)
  • staighre bíse (“spiral staircase”)
  • thíos an staighre (“downstairs”)
  • thuas an staighre (“upstairs”)

References

  1. ^ “staighre”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “staigre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98

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