oidhre

Irish

Alternative forms

• eidhre, eighre (obsolete)
• oighre

Etymology

From Middle Irish eigre, from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hēres; cognate with Scottish Gaelic oighre, Manx eirey.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈəiɾʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːɾʲə/, [ˈei̯ɾʲə]

Noun

oidhre m (genitive singular oidhre, nominative plural oidhrí)

1. heir

Declension

Declension of oidhre (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative oidhre oidhrí vocative a oidhre a oidhrí genitive oidhre oidhrí dative oidhre oidhrí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-oidhre na hoidhrí genitive an oidhre na n-oidhrí dative leis an oidhre don oidhre leis na hoidhrí

• Alternative plural: oidhreacha (Aran)

Coordinate terms

• banoidhre (“heiress”)

Related terms

• oidhreacht (“heritage; heredity; inheritance”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of oidhre

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oidhre	n-oidhre	hoidhre	t-oidhre

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

Further reading

• 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
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “oiġre”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 527
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 5
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oidhre”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “oidhre”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “oidhre”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• “oidhre”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy