úir

See also: ùir

Irish

From Old Irish úr,^[2] fúr, from Proto-Celtic *swūr.^[3] Alternatively, connected with Proto-Germanic *ōra, *ūra- (“ferriferous sand”) (see Dutch oer) and possibly *auraz (“wet earth, mud”).^[4]

úir f (genitive singular úire)

Declension of úir (second declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an úir
genitive	na húire
dative	leis an úir don úir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

úir

úir

Mutated forms of *úir*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
úir	n-úir	húir	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561
^ Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012