ionar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish inar.

Noun

ionar m (genitive singular ionair, nominative plural ionair)

1. tunic
2. vest, jerkin
3. (anatomy) membrane
4. (botany) integument, layer

Declension

Declension of inar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative inar inair vocative a inair a inara genitive inair inar dative inar inair forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-inar na hinair genitive an inair na n-inar dative leis an inar don inar leis na hinair

Derived terms

• ionarbhréid m (“mantle”)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ionar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “inar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language