ór

See also: Appendix:Variations of "or"

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ór, from Latin aurum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [oːɾˠ]

Noun

ór m (genitive singular óir)

1. gold

Declension

Declension of ór

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative ór Vocative a óir Genitive óir Dative ór

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-ór Genitive an óir Dative leis an ór don ór

Derived terms

• mianadóir óir m (“gold-miner”)
• órchloch f (“philosopher’s stone”, literally “goldstone”)
• Órfhlaith f (name)
• órga
• órtháirgeach (“gold-bearing, auriferous”, adjective)
• órthaisce f (“gold reserve”)

 

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ór”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ór”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aurum.

Noun

ór n (genitive óir)

1. gold

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• afost

Derived terms

• órdae

Descendants

• Irish: ór
• Manx: airh
• Scottish Gaelic: òr

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ór	unchanged	n-ór
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ór”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

• úr

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uz (“out of”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐍃 (us).

Preposition

ór (takes dative)

1. out of, from
2. made out of, denoting a substance
3. from among (a group)
4. denoting a cause
5. beyond
6. denoting absolute completeness, as in "utterly"

Descendants

• Icelandic: úr
• Faroese: úr
• Norwegian Nynorsk: or
• Old Swedish: ur, ūr
  • Swedish: ur
• (, ) (< *ýʀ)
• Gutnish: ör, öir (< *ýʀ)

See also

• út

References

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press