saothar

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish saíthar,[1] from Proto-Celtic *saitrom, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-trom (binding, fetter).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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saothar m (genitive singular saothair, nominative plural saothair)

  1. labour (work); toil, exertion; stress, effort
    gan saotharwithout effort
  2. work (product of labour)
    1. thing done, achievement
    2. works; literary or artistic composition
  3. (music) opus
  4. (music, literature) composition, piece
  5. job of destruction
  6. (literary) travail, pangs of childbirth
  7. evacuation of bowels; excrement
  8. (as verbal noun, ag ~) labouring, toiling

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
saothar shaothar
after an, tsaothar
not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*saytro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 325
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 79
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44

Further reading

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  • saothar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “saoṫar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 595
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saothar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • saothar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024