íarthar

Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /ˈiərθər/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈiərhər/

Noun

íarthar m (genitive íarthair, no plural)

1. west
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, line 10:

     Is ⟨s⟩í sin in chōiced bruden ro·boī i nHērinn isind aimsir sin, ocus bruden Da-Derg i crích Cūalann ocus bruden Ḟorgaill Manaich ocus bruden Me[i]c Da-Rēo i mBrēfni ocus bruden Da-Choca i n-īarthur Midi.

     That is one of the five halls that were in Ireland at that time: [the others being] also the hall of Da-Derg in the area of Cualu, and the hall of Forgall Manach, and the hall of Mac Dareo in Brefne, and the hall of Dachoca in the west of Meath.

Declension

• Genitive singular: íarthair
• Dative singular: íarthur, íarthor

Descendants

• Irish: iarthar

Mutation

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