athdháir

Irish

Alternative forms

• adáir

Etymology

From Old Irish athdáir (“re-bulling”), from dáir (“bulling”), from dairid (“bulls”, verb). By surface analysis, ath- (“re-, again”) +‎ dáir (“heat”).

Noun

athdháir f (genitive singular athdhárach)

1. recurrent heat in cattle

Declension

Declension of athdháir

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative athdháir Vocative a athdháir Genitive athdhárach Dative athdháir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an athdháir Genitive na hathdhárach Dative leis an athdháir don athdháir

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
athdháir	n-athdháir	hathdháir	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “athdháir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “athdáir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language