lár

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lar"

Icelandic

Noun

lár

1. inflection of lá:
   1. indefinite genitive singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lár, from Proto-Celtic *ɸlārom (compare Welsh llawr and Breton leur), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-r- (compare Old English flōr), from *pleh₂-.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠæːɾˠ/

Noun

lár m (genitive singular láir, nominative plural láir)

1. middle

   Tá muid áit éigin sa lár idir Baile Átha Cliath agus Corcaigh.

   We're somewhere in the middle between Dublin and Corc.

2. center

   An Lár ― City Centre (seen on signs in Dublin)

3. ground, floor

   Synonym: orlár

Declension

Declension of lár

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative lár láir Vocative a láir a lára Genitive láir lár Dative lár láir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an lár na láir Genitive an láir na lár Dative leis an lár don lár leis na láir

Derived terms

• Eoraip Láir
• i lár
• i lár baill
• i lár báire
• lár-
• Poblacht na hAfraice Láir

 

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lár”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “lár”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 45

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlārom (compare Welsh llawr), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-r- (compare Old English flōr), from *pleh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l͈aːr/

Noun

lár n

1. surface, ground, floor
2. middle, interior

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lárN	lárN	lárL, lára
Vocative	lárN	lárN	lárL, lára
Accusative	lárN	lárN	lárL, lára
Genitive	láirL	lár	lárN
Dative	lárL	láraib	láraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: lár
• Manx: laare
• Scottish Gaelic: làr
• ⇒ Middle Irish: urlár, airlár, erlar, irlár, orlár
  • Irish: urlár
  • Scottish Gaelic: ùrlar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lár also llár after a proclitic	lár pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
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), “lár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language