a-raoir
Scottish Gaelic edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish irráir (“the time before the dawn”) (compare Irish aréir, Manx riyr).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
a-raoir
- last night, last evening
Related terms edit
- a' bhòn-raoir (“the night before last”, adverb)
- air bhòn-raoir (“the night before last”, adverb)
See also edit
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “a-raoir”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “irráir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language