staighre

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Irish

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Staighre

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English steire, from Old English stǣġer (stair, staircase),[2] from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (stairs, scaffolding), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (to walk, proceed, march, climb). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic staidhre.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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staighre f (genitive singular staighre, nominative plural staighrí)

  1. stairs (contiguous set of steps), a stairway

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ staighre”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “staigre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98

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