dair

See also: dáir and dàir

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dair, from Proto-Celtic *daru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d̪ˠaɾʲ/

Noun

dair f (genitive singular darach or dara, nominative plural daracha)

  1. oak

Declension
As a fifth-declension noun
Declension of dair

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dair daracha
Vocative a dhair a dharacha
Genitive darach darach
Dative dair
daraigh (archaic, dialectal)		 daracha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dair na daracha
Genitive na darach na ndarach
Dative leis an dair
leis an daraigh (archaic, dialectal)

don dair
don daraigh (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na daracha
As a third-declension noun
Declension of dair

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dair daracha
Vocative a dhair a dharacha
Genitive dara daracha
Dative dair daracha

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dair na daracha
Genitive na dara na ndaracha
Dative leis an dair

don dair

 leis na daracha

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dair dhair ndair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier daur, from Proto-Celtic *daru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru; compare Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “tree”).

Noun

dair f (genitive dara or darach)

  1. oak
    • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 38a9
      quercus .i. daur
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 33a5
      is clí darach Moysi
      oaken pillar of Moses

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
dair dair
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/		 ndair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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