paor

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈpˠeːɾˠ/, [ˈpˠëːə̯ɾˠ][1]

Noun

paor m (genitive singular paor or paoir)

  1. laughing stock, butt (target of ridicule)
  2. grudge [with ar ‘against’]

Declension

As fourth-declension noun:

Declension of paor (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative paor
vocative a phaor
genitive paor
dative paor
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an paor
genitive an phaor
dative leis an bpaor
don phaor

As first-declension noun:

Declension of paor (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative paor
vocative a phaoir
genitive paoir
dative paor
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an paor
genitive an phaoir
dative leis an bpaor
don phaor

Mutation

Mutated forms of paor
radical lenition eclipsis
paor phaor bpaor

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

References

  1. ^ 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 28

Further reading

  • paor”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “paor”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 832; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “paor”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan paor, from Latin pavor, pavōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pa.ˈu], (Castillon (06)) [pa.ˈuɹ]

Noun

paor f (plural paors)

  1. (Niçard, País mentonasc) fear

Dialectal variants

Old French

Noun

paor oblique singularf (oblique plural paors, nominative singular paor, nominative plural paors)

  1. alternative form of peor

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pavor, pavōrem.

Noun

paor f (oblique plural paors, nominative singular paor, nominative plural paors)

  1. fear

Descendants

  • Occitan: paur

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bauer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pâor/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧or

Noun

pȁor m anim (Cyrillic spelling па̏ор)

  1. (regional) peasant, farmer
    Synonym: sèljāk
  2. (regional, derogatory) hillbilly
    Synonym: seljàčina

Declension

Declension of paor
singular plural
nominative paor paori
genitive paora paora
dative paoru paorima
accusative paora paore
vocative paore paori
locative paoru paorima
instrumental paorom paorima

References

  • paor”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026