urchair

Irish

Noun

urchair m

  1. vocative singular of urchar
  2. genitive singular of urchar
  3. nominative plural of urchar
  4. dative plural of urchar

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
urchair n-urchair hurchair t-urchair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor (“cast, shot”).

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”)

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “airchor” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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