camhaoir

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish camáir.

Noun

camhaoir f (genitive singular camhaoire or camhaoireach)

1. daybreak

Declension

Declension of camhaoir (second declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative camhaoir vocative a chamhaoir genitive camhaoire dative camhaoir forms with the definite article singular nominative an chamhaoir genitive na camhaoire dative leis an gcamhaoir don chamhaoir

Declension of camhaoir (fifth declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative camhaoir vocative a chamhaoir genitive camhaoireach dative camhaoir forms with the definite article singular nominative an chamhaoir genitive na camhaoireach dative leis an gcamhaoir don chamhaoir

Mutation

Mutated forms of camhaoir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
camhaoir	chamhaoir	gcamhaoir

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) “camhaoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “8086”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language