urchair

Irish

Noun

urchair m

1. inflection of urchar:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of urchair

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urchair	n-urchair	hurchair	not applicable

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor (“cast, shot”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸarekoros. See fo·ceird (“to cast”).

Noun

urchair f (genitive singular urchaire or urchrach or urchaireach, plural urchraichean)

1. missile, projectile
2. shot

Derived terms

• leig urchair (“fire, shoot at”)
• urchair chloiche (“stonecast, throw with a stone or hammer”)

 

Mutation

Mutation of urchair

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urchair	n-urchair	h-urchair	t-urchair

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “urchair”, 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), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language