ùrlar

See also: urlar and urlár

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish urlár^[1] (compare Irish urlár).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːrˠl̪ˠəɾ/, [ˈuːɹl̪ˠəɾ]
• (Uist, Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈũːl̪ˠaɾ/^[2] (as if spelled unnlar)

Noun

ùrlar m (genitive singular ùrlair, plural ùrlaran)

1. floor

   air an ùrlar ― on the floor

2. (music) theme, motif
   1. (pìobaireachd) the ground, the first movement in a pìobaireachd composition, a highly ornamented theme

Synonyms

• (floor): làr

Derived terms

• àrd-ùrlar (“stage, rostrum, platform, dais”)
• ùrlaraich (“pave, floor”, verb)

Mutation

Mutation of ùrlar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ùrlar	n-ùrlar	h-ùrlar	t-ùrlar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
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. John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ùrlar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN