urlár

See also: urlar and ùrlar

Irish

Alternative forms

• orlár (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Middle Irish urlár (“level surface”) (compare Scottish Gaelic ùrlar).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ʊɾˠˈl̪ˠɑːɾˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈauɾˠl̪ˠɑːɾˠ/ (corresponding to the form orlár)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠl̪ˠaɾˠ/

Noun

urlár m (genitive singular urláir, nominative plural urláir)

1. floor
2. level surface
3. (heraldry) field
4. bottom surface
5. (geology) sill

Declension

Declension of urlár

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urlár urláir Vocative a urláir a urlára Genitive urláir urlár Dative urlár urláir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urlár na hurláir Genitive an urláir na n-urlár Dative leis an urlár don urlár leis na hurláir

Derived terms

• bunurlár
• fo-urlár
• idirurlár
• teach aon urlár
• urlár buailte
• urlár damhsa
• urlár droichid
• urlár fuinneoige
• urlár iontlaise
• urlár iorghaile
• urlár na monarchan
• urlár na talún
• urlár peilbheach
• urlár rince
• urlár téite
• urlár trádála
• urlárlach

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urlár	n-urlár	hurlár	t-urlár
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “urlár”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 781
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urlár”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “urlár”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “urlár”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• airlár, erlar, irlár, orlár

Etymology

From ar- +‎ lár.

Noun

urlár n

1. level surface, floor
2. square, market place

Descendants

• Irish: urlár
• Scottish Gaelic: ùrlar

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
urlár	unchanged	n-urlár
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), “airlár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language