urrús

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aurradus (“native law; leadership, supremacy; suretyship; guaranty”), from aurrae, aurrad (compare modern urra).

Noun

urrús m (genitive singular urrúis, nominative plural urrúis)

1. security, guarantee
2. strength, prowess
3. confidence, assurance; forwardness

Declension

Declension of urrús (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative urrús urrúis vocative a urrúis a urrúsa genitive urrúis urrús dative urrús urrúis forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-urrús na hurrúis genitive an urrúis na n-urrús dative leis an urrús don urrús leis na hurrúis

Derived terms

• urrúsach (“strong; confident, assured; forward”, adjective)
• urrúsacht f (“confidence, assurance; forwardness”)
• urrúsaigh (“securitize”, verb)
• urrúsú m (“securitization”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of urrús

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urrús	n-urrús	hurrús	t-urrús

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urrús”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “guarantee”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• “security”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• “surety”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aurradus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aurrae, aurrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language