odur

See also: óður

Middle English

Noun

odur

  1. Alternative form of odour

Old French

Etymology

Latin odor

Noun

odur oblique singular, m (oblique plural odurs, nominative singular odurs, nominative plural odur)

  1. odour; scent; smell

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *udros, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“aquatic”).[1] Matasović is unsure on how the semantics arose, but it might be either from the colour of the water itself or that of the otters within.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈoður/

Adjective

odur

  1. dun, greyish-brown
    • c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 32d
      saurus .i. odur ― (with saurus assumed to be a vulgar form of surrufus)

Inflection
o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative odur odur odur
Vocative uidir*
odur**
Accusative odur uidir
Genitive uidir uidre uidir
Dative odur uidir odur
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative uidir odra
Vocative odru
odra†
Accusative odru
odra†
Genitive odur
Dative odraib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: odor, odar

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
odur unchanged n-odur
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*uden-sk-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 395

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