sodar

English

Etymology

Short for sonic detection and ranging; compare radar, sonar.

Pronunciation

Noun

sodar (uncountable)

  1. A system resembling sonar but used in the air, for meteorological measurements, rather than in water.

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠɔd̪ˠəɾˠ/[1], /ˈsˠɞd̪ˠəɾˠ/[2]

Noun

sodar m (genitive singular sodair)

  1. (functioning as a verbal noun) (act of) trotting (walk rapidly; move at a gait between walk and canter)
  2. a trot (gait of an animal between walk and canter; gait of a person faster than a walk)

Declension
Declension of sodar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative sodar
Vocative a shodair
Genitive sodair
Dative sodar

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an sodar
Genitive an tsodair
Dative leis an sodar

don sodar

Derived terms
  • ar sodar (“at a trot, on the double”)
  • bogshodar
  • de shodar (“at a trot, in a hurry”)
  • geamhshodar
  • gearrshodar
  • sodaire
  • sodar i ndiaidh (“toadying to, sucking up to”)
  • sodarnaíl

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sodar shodar
after an, tsodar		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 177, page 90
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91

Further reading
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.