irráir
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom ar (“before”) + *fár (“dawn”) (> Middle Irish fáir). Compare camáir (“dawn”) (< co + *fár, literally “with dawn”). Cognate with Welsh gwawr (“dawn”).[1]
Adverb
editirráir
Descendants
editReferences
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- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “irráir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language