odur

See also: óður

Middle English

Noun

odur

1. Alternative form of odour

Old French

Etymology

Latin odor

Noun

odur oblique singular, m (oblique plural odurs, nominative singular odurs, nominative plural odur)

1. odour; scent; smell

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *udros, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“aquatic”). Matasović is unsure on how the semantics arose, but it might be either from the colour of the water itself or that of the otters within.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoður/

Adjective

odur

1. dun, greyish-brown
   • c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 32^d

     saurus .i. odur ― (with saurus assumed to be a vulgar form of surrufus)

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	odur	odur	odur
Vocative	uidir* odur**
Accusative	odur	uidir
Genitive	uidir	uidre	uidir
Dative	odur	uidir	odur
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	uidir	odra
Vocative	odru odra†
Accusative	odru odra†
Genitive	odur
Dative	odraib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Descendants

• Middle Irish: odor, odar
  • Irish: odhar
  • Scottish Gaelic: odhar
  • Manx: ouyr, ouar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
odur (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-odur
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “odor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language