See also: dair, and dàir

Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish dáir (bulling, heat), from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (to leap upon), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (to leap, spring forth).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dáir dháir ndáir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

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