urlár

See also: urlar and ùrlar

Irish

Alternative forms

• orlár (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

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From Middle Irish urlár (“level surface”) (compare Scottish Gaelic ùrlar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːɾˠˈl̪ˠɑːɾˠ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈəuɾˠl̪ˠɑːɾˠ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈʊɾˠl̪ˠæɾˠ/

Noun

urlár m (genitive singular urláir, nominative plural urláir)

1. floor
2. level surface
3. (heraldry) field
4. bottom surface
5. (geology) sill

Declension

Declension of urlár

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urlár urláir Vocative a urláir a urlára Genitive urláir urlár Dative urlár urláir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urlár na hurláir Genitive an urláir na n-urlár Dative leis an urlár don urlár leis na hurláir

Derived terms

• bunurlár, urlár na talún (“ground floor, ground level”)
• fo-urlár (“subfloor”)
• teach aon urlár (“ranch house”)
• urlár bachta (“floor of bog”)
• urlár buailte (“threshing floor”)
• urlár buailte (“threshing-floor”)
• urlár damhsa, urlár rince (“dancefloor”)
• urlár droichid (“deck of bridge”)
• urlár faoi thalamh (“basement”)
• urlár fuinneoige (“window-sill”)
• urlár gleanna (“floor of valley”)
• urlár iontlaise (“parquet”)
• urlár iorghaile (“field of battle”)
• urlár na monarchan (“factory floor, shop floor”)
• urlár peilbheach (“pelvic floor”)
• urlár téite (“hearth”)
• urlár trádála (“trading floor”)
• urlárlach (“flooring”)

 

Mutation

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Template:R:ga:Dinneen
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 13

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urlár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “urlár”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “urlár”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• airlár, erlar, irlár, orlár

Etymology

From ar- +‎ lár.

Noun

urlár n

1. level surface, floor
2. square, market place

Descendants

• Irish: urlár
• Scottish Gaelic: ùrlar

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
urlár	unchanged	n-urlár
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), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language