iuchair

See also: Iuchair

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish eochair, from Old Irish eochair, from Proto-Celtic *exs-koris, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“turn, curve”) (whence Latin curvus).^[1] Compare Irish eochair.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈjuxɪɾʲ/

Noun edit

iuchair f (genitive singular iuchrach, plural iuchraichean)

key (for locking, winding etc)
clef

Derived terms edit

dul-iuchrach

See also edit

References edit

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217

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