See also: urlar and urlár

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish urlár (compare Irish urlár).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈuːrˠl̪ˠəɾ/, [ˈuːɹl̪ˠəɾ]

Noun

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ùrlar m (genitive singular ùrlair, plural ùrlaran)

  1. floor
    air an ùrlaron the floor
  2. (music) theme, motif
    1. (pìobaireachd) the ground, the first movement in a pìobaireachd composition, a highly ornamented theme

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ùrlar n-ùrlar h-ùrlar t-ùrlar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ùrlar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language