uachtar

See also: úachtar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úachtar, óchtar (whence also Scottish Gaelic uachdar and Manx eaghtyr), from Proto-Celtic *ouxsterom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewp-s- (“high”). Akin to Irish and Scottish Gaelic uasal, Welsh uchel and uthr, Breton uhel. Cognate to Ancient Greek ὕψος (húpsos, “height”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuəxt̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

uachtar m (genitive singular uachtair, nominative plural uachtair)

1. top, upper part
   1. summit
   2. surface
   3. cream (milk)
2. (geography) southern part

Declension

Declension of uachtar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative uachtar uachtair Vocative a uachtair a uachtara Genitive uachtair uachtar Dative uachtar uachtair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uachtar na huachtair Genitive an uachtair na n-uachtar Dative leis an uachtar don uachtar leis na huachtair

Antonyms

• íochtar

Derived terms

• béal uachtair (“upper lip”)
• cáis uachtair (“cream cheese”)
• cleith uachtair (“gaff (of sail)”)
• crúiscín uachtair (“cream-jug”)
• rigín uachtair (“top gear, top-hamper”)
• uachtar aghaidhe lae (“day cream”)
• uachtar bearrtha (“shaving cream”)
• uachtar coipthe (“whipped cream”)
• uachtar doirte (“pouring cream”)
• uachtar dúbailte (“double cream”)
• uachtar fuar (“cold cream”)
• uachtar géar (“sour cream”)
• uachtar glantach (“cleansing cream”)
• uachtar gréine (“suncream”)
• uachtar ime (“buttercream”)
• uachtar inchoipthe (“whipping cream”)
• uachtar reoite (“ice cream”)
• uachtar sailéid (“salad cream”)
• uachtar singil (“single cream”)
• uachtar téachta (“clotted cream”)
• uachtar uiscí (“aqueous cream”)
• uachtarach (“upper, top; higher, superior”)
• uachtarán (“president; headmaster”)
• uachtarlann (“dairy, creamery”)
• ualach uachtair (“top gear, top-hamper”)
• uiscí uachtair (“head-water(s)”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uachtar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “uachtar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “uachtar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úachtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language