eigre

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• eidir, eidre
• eiger, eigir
• oigir, oigre

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hēres.

Noun

eigre m

1. heir, inheritor, successor, descendant

Derived terms

• eigrecht

Descendants

• Irish: oidhre
• Manx: eirey
• Scottish Gaelic: oighre

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
eigre	unchanged	n-eigre
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eigre, oigre, eiger, eigir, oigir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language