lár

See also: lar, lär, làr, lår, lár-, -lar, LAr, and LAR

Icelandic

Noun

lár

1. inflection of lá:
   1. indefinite genitive singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lár, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlārom (compare Welsh llawr and Breton leur), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-r- (compare Old English flōr), from *pleh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɑːɾˠ/
• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠæːɾˠ/

Noun

lár m (genitive singular láir, nominative plural láir)

1. ground, floor
2. middle, center

   An Lár ― City Centre (seen on signs in Dublin)

Declension

Declension of lár

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative lár láir Vocative a láir a lára Genitive láir lár Dative lár láir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an lár na láir Genitive an láir na lár Dative leis an lár don lár leis na láir

Derived terms

• Eoraip Láir
• i lár
• lár-
• Poblacht na hAfraice Láir

 

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lár”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “lár”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlārom (compare Welsh llawr), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-r- (compare Old English flōr), from *pleh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l͈aːr/

Noun

lár n

1. surface, ground, floor
2. middle, interior

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lárN	lárN	lárL, lára
Vocative	lárN	lárN	lárL, lára
Accusative	lárN	lárN	lárL, lára
Genitive	láirL	lár	lárN
Dative	lárL	láraib	láraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: lár
• Manx: laare
• Scottish Gaelic: làr
• ⇒ Middle Irish: urlár, airlár, erlar, irlár, orlár
  • Irish: urlár
  • Scottish Gaelic: ùrlar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lár also llár after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lár pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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