úathmar
Old Irish
Etymology
From úath (“fear, horror, terror”) + -mar (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuːa̯θṽar/
Adjective
úathmar
- dreadful, terrible, terrifying
- c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 45a6
- huathmar glosses terribile
- c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 45a6
Descendants
- Middle Irish: fúathmar
- Modern Irish: fuafar
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| úathmar | unchanged | n-úathmar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- “úathmar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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