arathar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish arathar, from Proto-Celtic *aratrom (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

Noun

arathar m (genitive singular arathair)

1. (literary, agriculture) ploughing equipment, plough; ploughing

Declension

Declension of arathar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative arathar vocative a arathair genitive arathair dative arathar forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-arathar genitive an arathair dative leis an arathar don arathar

Mutation

Mutated forms of arathar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
arathar	n-arathar	harathar	t-arathar

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arathar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN