fardoras

Irish

Alternative forms
  • fárdoras, fardorus, fárdorus, fordhorus, fordorus[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish fordorus,[2] from for- (“over”) + dorus (“door”).

Pronunciation
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɔɾˠd̪ˠəɾˠəsˠ/[3] (corresponding to the form fordoras)

Noun

fardoras m (genitive singular fardorais, nominative plural fardoirse)

  1. lintel

Declension
Declension of fardoras

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fardoras fardoirse
Vocative a fhardorais a fhardoirse
Genitive fardorais fardoirse
Dative fardoras fardoirse

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fardoras na fardoirse
Genitive an fhardorais na bhfardoirse
Dative leis an bhfardoras

don fhardoras

 leis na fardoirse

Derived terms
  • fuinneog fhardorais (“fanlight, transom window”)

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

References
  1. “fardoras”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fordorus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 114

Further reading
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