urchar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor m (“act of putting forward, extending; cast, shot; dart or weapon discharged”), verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“increases, extends; prolongs”).

Noun

urchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)

1. cast, shot
2. (typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
3. round (of ammunition)
4. (athletics) starting gun

Declension

Declension of urchar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urchar urchair Vocative a urchair a urchara Genitive urchair urchar Dative urchar urchair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urchar na hurchair Genitive an urchair na n-urchar Dative leis an urchar don urchar leis na hurchair

Derived terms

• urchar cnoic, urchar díobhaill, urchar millte (“‘fairy dart’, louping-ill”)
• urchar díslí (“cast of dice”)
• urchar gunna (“gunshot”)
• urchar spóil (“throw of shuttle (in loom)”)

 

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urchar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language