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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oidhre	n-oidhre	hoidhre	t-oidhre
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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 (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