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dàir

See also: dair and dáir

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

dàir (dair4, Zhuyin ㄉㄞˋㄦ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 帶兒／带儿
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 袋兒／袋儿

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish *dârô, dairid, from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).[1]

Verb edit

dàir (past dhàir, future dàiridh, verbal noun dàir or dàireadh, past participle dàirte)

  1. rut, copulate

Noun edit

dàir f

  1. (Lewis) calving

References edit

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dàir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
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