urú

See also: uru, Uru, URU, ūru, Uru., úrú, ürü, and Appendix:Variations of "uru"

Irish

Alternative forms

• urdhubhadh (superseded)

Etymology

From ur- (“before, over”) +‎ dubhadh (“blackening, darkening”). Synchronically analyzable as uraigh +‎ -ú, though etymologically the verb is a back-formation from the verbal noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊɾˠuː/

Noun

urú m (genitive singular uraithe, nominative plural uruithe)

1. verbal noun of uraigh
2. (astronomy) eclipse

   Synonym: éiclips

3. (linguistics) eclipsis, nasalization

Declension

Declension of urú

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urú uruithe Vocative a urú a uruithe Genitive uraithe uruithe Dative urú uruithe

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urú na huruithe Genitive an uraithe na n-uruithe Dative leis an urú don urú leis na huruithe

Derived terms

• cuir faoi urú (“eclipse”, verb)
• urú fáinneach m (“annular eclipse”)
• urú na gealaí m (“lunar eclipse”)
• urú na gréine m (“solar eclipse”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

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