deacair

Irish

From Old Irish deccair, from dí- *accor, the unattested verbal noun of ad·cuirethar (“to restore”), equivalent to de acar (“tool, service”).^[1]^[2]

deacair (genitive singular masculine deacair, genitive singular feminine deacra, plural deacra, comparative deacra)

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

deacair f (genitive singular deacra, nominative plural deacra)

Declension of deacair (third declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an deacair	na deacra
genitive	na deacra	na ndeacra
dative	leis an deacair don deacair	leis na deacra

Mutated forms of *deacair*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
deacair	dheacair	ndeacair

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deccair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Vendryes, Joseph (1996) “deccair”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume D, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page D-31
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 18
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 57
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 87