urú

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uru"

Irish

Alternative forms

• urdhubhadh (superseded)

Etymology

From ur- (“before, over”) +‎ dubhadh (“blackening, darkening”). By surface analysis, uraigh +‎ -ú, though etymologically the verb is a back-formation from the verbal noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊɾˠuː/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾˠə/ (as if spelled ora)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠauɾˠə/ (as if spelled fabhra)

Noun

urú m (genitive singular uraithe, nominative plural uruithe)

1. verbal noun of uraigh
2. (astronomy) eclipse

   Synonym: éiclips

3. (linguistics) eclipsis, nasalization

Declension

Declension of urú (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative urú uruithe vocative a urú a uruithe genitive uraithe uruithe dative urú uruithe forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-urú na huruithe genitive an uraithe na n-uruithe dative leis an urú don urú leis na huruithe

Derived terms

• cuir faoi urú (“eclipse”, verb)
• páirturú
• urú fáinneach
• urú na gealaí (“lunar eclipse”)
• urú na gréine (“solar eclipse”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of urú

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urú	n-urú	hurú	t-urú

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airdubad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “urú”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “urú”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025