dáir
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish dáir (“bulling, heat”), from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).[1]
Noun
dáir f (genitive singular dárach)
- heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 64:
- tā n wō fȳ ʒāŕ. tā dāŕ eŕ ə mō.
- Tá an bhó faoi dháir. Tá dáir ar a mbó. (conventional orthography)
- The cow is in heat.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 64:
Declension
Declension of dáir
Fifth declension
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Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| dáir | dháir | ndáir |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “dáir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “dáir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58
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