dáir

See also: dair and dàir

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish dáir (“bulling, heat”), from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɑːɾʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaːɾʲ/

Noun

dáir f (genitive singular dárach)

1. heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 64:

     tā n wō fȳ ʒāŕ. tā dāŕ eŕ ə mō.

     [Tá an bhó faoi dháir. Tá dáir ar a mbó.]

     The cow is in heat.

Declension

Declension of dáir (fifth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative dáir vocative a dháir genitive dárach dative dáir dáraigh (archaic, dialectal) forms with the definite article case singular nominative an dáir genitive na dárach dative leis an dáir leis an dáraigh (archaic, dialectal) don dáir don dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Mutation

Mutated forms of dáir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dáir	dháir	ndáir

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) “dáir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN