Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aurradus (“native law; leadership, supremacy; suretyship; guaranty”), from aurrae, aurrad (compare modern urra).
Noun
urrús m (genitive singular urrúis, nominative plural urrúis)
- security, guarantee
- strength, prowess
- confidence, assurance; forwardness
Declension
Declension of urrús (first declension)
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Derived terms
- urrúsach (“strong; confident, assured; forward”, adjective)
- urrúsacht f (“confidence, assurance; forwardness”)
- urrúsaigh (“securitize”, verb)
- urrúsú m (“securitization”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of urrús
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| urrús
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n-urrús
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hurrús
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t-urrús
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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) “urrús”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “guarantee”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- “security”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- “surety”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aurradus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aurrae, aurrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language