dáir

See also: dair and dàir

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish dáir (“bulling, heat”), from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

dáir f (genitive singular dárach)

  1. heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64:
      tā n wō fȳ ʒāŕ. tā dāŕ eŕ ə mō.
      [Tá an bhó faoi dháir. Tá dáir ar a mbó.]
      The cow is in heat.

Declension
Declension of dáir

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative dáir
Vocative a dháir
Genitive dárach
Dative dáir
dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an dáir
Genitive na dárach
Dative leis an dáir
leis an dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

don dáir
don dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dáir dháir ndáir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dáir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58

Further reading
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