faraor

Irish

Alternative forms

  • faraoil, faraoir, faríor, fóiríor, foraoil, fóraoil, foríor
  • fairíor, fáiríor, fairír, fáraoir, fáraor, farior, farír, fóirior, foraoir, fóríor, forír (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish fo-rír.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /fˠaˈɾˠiːɾˠ/, (older) /fˠaˈɾˠɯːɾˠ/[3]

Interjection

faraor

  1. alas
    Synonym: abhó

References

  1. ^ “faraor”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fo-rír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 28

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