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cuar

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Dalmatian

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Verb

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cuar (third-person singular present cuar)

  1. Alternative form of curro

Friulian

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Alternative forms

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  • cuâr (alternative orthography)

Etymology

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From Latin cornū. Compare Italian corno, Dalmatian cuarno, Spanish cuerno.

Noun

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cuar m (plural cuars)

  1. horn (animals)

Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cúar, from Proto-Celtic *kukros (curved), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, see also Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, Proto-Slavic *kuka (hook).

Adjective

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cuar (genitive singular masculine cuair, genitive singular feminine cuaire, plural cuara, comparative cuaire)

  1. curved
    Synonyms: cuarach, cuartha

Declension

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Declension of cuar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cuar chuar cuara;
chuara2
vocative chuair cuara
genitive cuaire cuara cuar
dative cuar;
chuar1
chuar;
chuair (archaic)
cuara;
chuara2
Comparative níos cuaire
Superlative is cuaire

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

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cuar m (genitive singular cuair, nominative plural cuair)

  1. curve
  2. (nautical) catenary
    Synonym: cuar slabhra

Declension

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Declension of cuar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cuar cuair
vocative a chuair a chuara
genitive cuair cuar
dative cuar cuair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cuar na cuair
genitive an chuair na gcuar
dative leis an gcuar
don chuar
leis na cuair

Derived terms

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Verb

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cuar (present analytic cuarann, future analytic cuarfaidh, verbal noun cuaradh, past participle cuartha)

  1. (ambitransitive) curve
  2. (ambitransitive, golf) fade

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of cuar
radical lenition eclipsis
cuar chuar gcuar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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Further reading

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