ùrlar

See also: urlar and urlár

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish urlár (compare Irish urlár).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːrˠl̪ˠəɾ/, [ˈuːɹl̪ˠəɾ]

Noun

ùrlar m (genitive singular ùrlair, plural ùrlaran)

1. floor

   air an ùrlar ― on the floor

2. (music) theme, motif
   1. (pìobaireachd) the ground, the first movement in a pìobaireachd composition, a highly ornamented theme

Synonyms

• (floor): làr

Derived terms

• àrd-ùrlar (“stage, rostrum, platform, dais”)
• ùrlaraich (“pave, floor”, verb)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ùrlar	n-ùrlar	h-ùrlar	t-ùrlar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “ùrlar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language