faraor
Irish
Alternative forms
- faraoil, faraoir, faríor, fóiríor, foraoil, fóraoil, foríor
- fairíor, fáiríor, fairír, fáraoir, fáraor, farior, farír, fóirior, foraoir, fóríor, forír (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Irish fo-rír.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /fˠaˈɾˠiːɾˠ/, (older) /fˠaˈɾˠɯːɾˠ/[1]
Interjection
faraor
- alas
- Synonym: abhó
Further reading
- “faraor” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fo-rír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “fáiríor” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 294.
- "faraor" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 28