uachtar

See also: úachtar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úachtar,[1] óchtar (whence also Scottish Gaelic uachdar and Manx eaghtyr), from Proto-Celtic *ouxsterom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps- (“high”). Akin to Irish and Scottish Gaelic uasal, Welsh uchel and uthr, Breton uhel. Cognate to Ancient Greek ὕψος (húpsos, “height”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuəxt̪ˠəɾˠ/[2]

Noun

uachtar m (genitive singular uachtair, nominative plural uachtair)

  1. top, upper part
  2. surface (of the water, from the point of view of someone or something underwater)
  3. cream (milk)
  4. (astrology) ascendant
  5. (shoemaking) upper (part of a shoe above the sole)

Declension

Declension of uachtar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative uachtar uachtair
vocative a uachtair a uachtara
genitive uachtair uachtar
dative uachtar uachtair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-uachtar na huachtair
genitive an uachtair na n-uachtar
dative leis an uachtar
don uachtar 		leis na huachtair

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • béal uachtair (“upper lip”)
  • cáis uachtair (“cream cheese”)
  • cleith uachtair (“gaff (of sail)”)
  • crúiscín uachtair (“cream-jug”)
  • rigín uachtair (“top gear, top-hamper”)
  • uachtar aghaidhe lae (“day cream”)
  • uachtar bearrtha (“shaving cream”)
  • uachtar coipthe (“whipped cream”)
  • uachtar doirte (“pouring cream”)
  • uachtar dúbailte (“double cream”)
  • uachtar fuar (“cold cream”)
  • uachtar géar (“sour cream”)
  • uachtar glantach (“cleansing cream”)
  • uachtar gréine (“suncream”)
  • uachtar ime (“buttercream”)
  • uachtar inchoipthe (“whipping cream”)
  • uachtar reoite (“ice cream”)
  • uachtar sailéid (“salad cream”)
  • uachtar singil (“single cream”)
  • uachtar téachta (“clotted cream”)
  • uachtar uiscí (“aqueous cream”)
  • uachtarach (“upper, top; higher, superior”)
  • uachtarán (“president; headmaster”)
  • uachtarlann (“dairy, creamery”)
  • ualach uachtair (“top gear, top-hamper”)
  • uiscí uachtair (“head-water(s)”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uachtar
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uachtar n-uachtar huachtar t-uachtar

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), “1 úachtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 339, page 117

Further reading

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