opar

Czech

Noun

1. herpes, herpes simplex

Synonyms

• herpes

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈobar/

Noun

opar f (genitive oipre)

1. work, occupation, activity, employment

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	oparL	opairL	oipreaH
Vocative	oparL	opairL	oipreaH
Accusative	opairN	opairL	oipreaH
Genitive	oipreH	oparL	oparN
Dative	opairL	oiprib	oiprib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: opar, opair
  • Irish: obair
  • Manx: obbyr
  • Scottish Gaelic: obair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
opar (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-opar
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), “opar, (opair)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language