urlár

See also: urlar and ùrlar

Irish

Alternative forms

• orlár (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Middle Irish urlár (“level surface”) (compare Scottish Gaelic ùrlar).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ʊɾˠˈl̪ˠɑːɾˠ/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈauɾˠl̪ˠɑːɾˠ/^[3] (corresponding to the form orlár)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠl̪ˠaɾˠ/^[4]

Noun

urlár m (genitive singular urláir, nominative plural urláir)

1. floor
2. level surface
3. (heraldry) field
4. bottom surface
5. (geology) sill

Declension

Declension of urlár (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative urlár urláir vocative a urláir a urlára genitive urláir urlár dative urlár urláir forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-urlár na hurláir genitive an urláir na n-urlár dative leis an urlár don urlár leis na hurláir

Derived terms

• bunurlár
• fo-urlár
• idirurlár
• teach aon urlár
• urlár buailte
• urlár damhsa
• urlár droichid
• urlár fuinneoige
• urlár iontlaise
• urlár iorghaile
• urlár na monarchan
• urlár na talún
• urlár peilbheach
• urlár rince
• urlár téite
• urlár trádála
• urlárlach

Mutation

Mutated forms of urlár

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urlár	n-urlár	hurlár	t-urlár

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), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
3. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 13
4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 8

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “urlár”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 781
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urlár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “urlár”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “urlár”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• airlár, erlar, irlár, orlár

Etymology

From ar- +‎ lár.

Noun

urlár n

1. level surface, floor
2. square, market place

Descendants

• Irish: urlár
• Scottish Gaelic: ùrlar

Mutation

Mutation of urlár

radical	lenition	nasalization
urlár	unchanged	n-urlár

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language