urchar

Irish

Alternative forms

• orchar
• urchor, urchur (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor m, verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“increase, extend, prolong”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸarekoros. See fo·ceird (“to cast”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɾˠʌxəɾˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈʊɾˠəxəɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠəxəɾˠ/

Noun

urchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)

1. cast, shot
2. (typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
3. round (of ammunition)
4. (athletics) starting gun

Declension

Declension of urchar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative urchar urchair vocative a urchair a urchara genitive urchair urchar dative urchar urchair forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-urchar na hurchair genitive an urchair na n-urchar dative leis an urchar don urchar leis na hurchair

Derived terms

• urchar cnoic (“louping ill”)
• urchar díobhaill (“louping ill”)
• urchar díslí (“cast of dice”)
• urchar gunna (“gunshot”)
• urchar millte (“louping ill”)
• urchar spóil (“throw of shuttle (in loom)”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of urchar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urchar	n-urchar	hurchar	t-urchar

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urchar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN