oighear

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aig, itself from Proto-Celtic *yegis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əiɾˠ]

Noun

oighear m (genitive singular oighir)

1. ice

Declension

Declension of oighear (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative oighear vocative a oighir genitive oighir dative oighear forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-oighear genitive an oighir dative leis an oighear don oighear

Derived terms

• bior oighir (“ice pick (for cocktails, etc)”)
• bosca oighir (“icebox”)
• ciúb oighir (“ice cube”)
• cnoc oighir (“iceberg”)
• haca oighir (“ice hockey”)
• leac oighir (“(sheet of) ice”)
• meaisín oighir (“ice machine”)
• oighear dubh
• oighear má (“field-ice”)
• oighreach (“glacial”, adjective)
• paca oighir (“ice pack”)
• piocóid oighir (“ice axe, ice pick”)
• rinc oighir (“ice rink”)
• scáta oighir (“ice skate”)
• scátáil oighir (“ice skating”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of oighear

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
oighear	n-oighear	hoighear	t-oighear

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

Further reading

• “oighear”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aigred”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “oiġear”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 527
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oighear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN