íar

See also: iar, iAr, IAR, iar-, iâr, and í ár

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *eɸirom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi-rom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːa̯r/

Preposition

íar (with dative; triggers eclipsis)

1. after
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129^c8

     in tan ṁberes claind, is fáilid íar sin

     when she bears children, she is joyous after that

2. according to
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 25^c5

     Foillsigthir as n‑ísel in doínacht íar n‑aicniud húare as in deacht foda·raithmine⟨dar⟩ ⁊ noda·fortachtaigedar.

     It is shown that the humanity is lowly according to nature because it is the Godhead that remembers it and helps it

Inflection

Inflection of íar

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.
2d person sing.	íarmut
3d sing. masc./neut., dative	íarum
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative
3d sing. fem., dative
3d sing. fem., accusative
1st person pl.
2d person pl.
3d person pl., dative	íarmaib
3d person pl., accusative

Combined with a definite article:

• íarsin(d) (“after the sg”)
• íar(s)naib (“after the pl”)

Combined with a possessive determiner:

• íarna (“after his/her/its/their”)
• íarnar (“after our”)

Combined with the relative pronoun:

• íarsa (“after which”)

Descendants

• Irish: ar (partly)

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 íar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 840, pages 515–16