cathair
English
Etymology
Noun
cathair (plural cathair)
- The hair of a cat.
- 1993, Allen Warfield, Al Brooks, Effective Telemarketing: How to Sell Over the Telephone, page 111:
- How can you tell a cat owner? all the little claw marks on their back. . .Or by the cathair that sticks to their suit.
- 1993, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Wasn't There:
- The conscientious Mrs. Fulgrove was driving away as he pulled into the barnyard, and he waved to her; the woman's scowl indicated that she had worked overtime because of the vast amount of cathair everywhere.
- 2000, Tamaqua: Volume Seven Issue One, page 75:
- Meditate on the steady drone and the rocking of the back and forth vacuum dance you do as you suck up the cathair, the ashes, the seeds, the stray leaves.
- 2000, Nimrod International Journal - Volume 44, page 128:
- Cat likes to brush against it and sun on the deck chair, the cushion is a mat of gray cathair.
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkahɪɾʲ/
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Etymology 1
From Old Irish cathair, from Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”).
Noun
cathair f (genitive singular cathrach or caithreach, nominative plural cathracha)
- city
- (historical) enclosed church establishment; monastic city
- (archaeology) circular stone fort, a ringfort
- dwelling(-place); bed, lair
Declension
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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- Alternative genitive singular: caithreach
Derived terms
- An Chathair Thoirmiscthe (“the Forbidden City”)
- ardchathair (“capital city; metropolis”)
- Cathair Aidriain (“Adrianople”)
- Cathair Alastair (“Alexandria”)
- Cathair an Phápa (“Vatican City”, literally “City of the Pope”)
- cathair ardeaglaise (“cathedral city”)
- cathair bhardais (“municipality”)
- Cathair Chonstaintín (“Constantinople”)
- cathair ghríobháin (“labyrinth, maze”)
- Cathair Mheicsiceo (“Mexico City”)
- Cathair na Mart (“Westport”)
- Cathair Pheadair (“Saint Petersburg”)
- cathair seileán (“swarming-place of bees”)
- príomhchathair (“capital city”)
Etymology 2
Noun
cathair f (genitive singular caithre or caithreach)
- Alternative form of caithir (“down, pubic hair”)
Declension
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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- Alternative genitive singular: caithreach
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cathair | chathair | gcathair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cathair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cathair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Template:R:ga:Dinneen
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cathair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cathair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”); possibly cognate with Old English hēaþor (“enclosure, prison”) or Serbo-Croatian kȍtar (“administrative unit, province”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig)
- stone enclosure, fortress, castle; dwelling
- monastic settlement, enclosure; monastery, convent
- Template:ca. Broccán’s Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 328, ll. 9–10:
- Nī bo fri óigthea acher cāinbói fri lobru trúagu:
for maig arutacht cathir dollaid rosnāde slúagu.- She was not harsh to guests: gentle was she to the wretched sick:
on a plain she built a convent: may it protect hosts into the Kingdom!
- She was not harsh to guests: gentle was she to the wretched sick:
- Template:ca. Broccán’s Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 328, ll. 9–10:
- fortified city, city
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13b1:
- (do·adb)adar in taidbsiu hi siu tra do(naib) coic cetaib […] ro·bói isin chaithir isind aimsir sin
- this appearance, then, is manifested to the five hundred […] that was in the city at that time
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13b1:
Declension
Feminine k-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cathair | cathraigL | cathraig |
Vocative | cathair | cathraigL | cathracha |
Accusative | cathraigN | cathraigL | cathracha |
Genitive | cathrach | cathrach | cathrachN |
Dative | cathraigL, caithir | cathrachaib | cathrachaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cathair | chathair | cathair pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 194
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cathair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish cathaír (“chair”), from Latin cathēdra, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra). Cognate with Irish cathaoir.
Noun
cathair f (genitive singular cathrach, plural cathraichean)
Derived terms
- àrd-chathair, breas-chathair, cathair-rìgh, cathair-rìoghail, rìgh-chathair, torr-chathair (“throne”)
- cathair ghàirdeanach (“armchair”)
Etymology 2
Noun
cathair f (genitive singular cathrach, plural cathraichean)
Derived terms
- catharra (“civil; civic, public”, adjective)
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
cathair f (genitive singular cathrach, plural cathraichean)
- gig (two wheeled horse drawn carriage)
- bed (of any garden stuff)
- stock, colewort, cabbage
- plot (of land)
- (obsolete) guard, sentinel, warder
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cathair | chathair |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “cathair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cathaír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cathair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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