dáir

See also: dair and dàir

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]

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɑːɾʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaːɾʲ/^[2]

Noun

dáir f (genitive singular dárach)

1. heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64:

     tā n wō fȳ ʒāŕ. tā dāŕ eŕ ə mō.

     [Tá an bhó faoi dháir. Tá dáir ar a mbó.]

     The cow is in heat.

Declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative dáir Vocative a dháir Genitive dárach Dative dáir dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an dáir Genitive na dárach Dative leis an dáir leis an dáraigh (archaic, dialectal) don dáir don dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Declension of dáir

Fifth declension

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

1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dáir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dáir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN