oirear

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish airer.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

oirear m (genitive singular oirir, nominative plural oirir) (literary)

  1. coast, shore
    Synonyms: cósta, cladach
  2. border, borderland

Declension

Declension of oirear (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative oirear oirir
vocative a oirir a oireara
genitive oirir oirear
dative oirear oirir
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-oirear na hoirir
genitive an oirir na n-oirear
dative leis an oirear
don oirear 		leis na hoirir

Derived terms

  • Oirear Gael (“Argyll”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of oirear
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oirear n-oirear hoirear t-oirear

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

References

  1. ^ “oirear”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 136, page 71

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