oidhre
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish eigre, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hēres; cognate with Scottish Gaelic oighre, Manx eirey.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
oidhre m (genitive singular oidhre, nominative plural oidhrí)
Declension edit
Declension of oidhre
- Alternative plural: oidhreacha (Aran)
Coordinate terms edit
- banoidhre (“heiress”)
Related terms edit
- oidhreacht (“heritage; heredity; inheritance”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
oidhre | n-oidhre | hoidhre | t-oidhre |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 61
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “eigre, oigre, eiger, eigir, oigir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “oiġre”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 527
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 5
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oidhre”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “oidhre” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “oidhre” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- “oidhre”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy