urchair

urchair

Irish

Noun

urchair m

1. inflection of urchar:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

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”)

 

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “urchair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language