dáir

See also: dair and dàir

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish dair, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

dáir f (genitive singular dárach)

  1. heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64:
      tā n wō fȳ ʒāŕ. tā dāŕ eŕ ə mō.
      [Tá an bhó faoi dháir. Tá dáir ar a mbó.]
      The cow is in heat.

Declension
Declension of dáir

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Vocative a dháir
Genitive dárach
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Genitive na dárach
Dative leis an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
leis an dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

don Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
don dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “dáir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58

Further reading
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