irráir

Old Irish edit

From ar (“before”) +‎ *fár (“dawn”) (> Middle Irish fáir). Compare camáir (“dawn”) (< co +‎ *fár, literally “with dawn”). Cognate with Welsh gwawr (“dawn”).^[1]

Adverb edit

irráir

last night

Descendants edit

Irish: aréir
Manx: riyr
Scottish Gaelic: a-raoir

References edit

^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “camáir, camaír”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-28

Further reading edit

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “irráir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[1] Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “camáir, camaír”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-28

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