urchar

Irish

Alternative forms

• orchar
• urchor, urchur (superseded)^[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor m, verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“increase, extend, prolong”).^[2] See fo·ceird (“to cast”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠʌxəɾˠ/^[3]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈʊɾˠəxəɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠəxəɾˠ/^[4]

Noun

urchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)

1. cast, shot
2. (typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
3. round (of ammunition)
4. (athletics) starting gun

Declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urchar urchair Vocative a urchair a urchara Genitive urchair urchar Dative urchar urchair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urchar na hurchair Genitive an urchair na n-urchar Dative leis an urchar don urchar leis na hurchair

Declension of urchar

First declension

Derived terms

• urchar cnoic (“louping ill”)
• urchar díobhaill (“louping ill”)
• urchar díslí (“cast of dice”)
• urchar gunna (“gunshot”)
• urchar millte (“louping ill”)
• urchar spóil (“throw of shuttle (in loom)”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urchar	n-urchar	hurchar	t-urchar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. “urchar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
2. Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
3. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 250, page 125
4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 138, page 54

Further reading

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