íarthar
Middle Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
íarthar m (genitive íarthair, no plural)
- west
- c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 10, page 1: “Is ⟨s⟩í sin in chōiced bruden ro·boī i nHērinn isind aimsir sin, ocus bruden Da-Derg i crích Cūalann ocus bruden Ḟorgaill Manaich ocus bruden Me[i]c Da-Rēo i mBrēfni ocus bruden Da-Choca i n-īarthur Midi. ― That is one of the five halls that were in Ireland at that time: [the others being] also the hall of Da-Derg in the area of Cualu, and the hall of Forgall Manach, and the hall of Mac Dareo in Brefne, and the hall of Dachoca in the west of Meath.”
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- Irish: iarthar
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
íarthar | unchanged | n-íarthar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “íarthar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language