deartháir

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish derbráthair, from derb (certain) + bráthair (brother), from Proto-Celtic *brātīr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /dʲɾʲəˈhaːɾʲ/ (as if spelled dreatháir)[1]
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈdʲɾʲɑːhərʲ/ (as if spelled dreáthair)[2]
  • (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /ˈdʲɾʲɑːɾʲ/ (as if spelled dreáthair)
  • (West Connemara, South Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈdʲɾʲiçaːɾʲ/ (as if spelled dricheáir)
  • (Achill) IPA(key): /ˈdʲaɾˠhaɾʲ/ (as if spelled dearthair)
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈdʲæːɾˠhaɾʲ/, /ˈdʲæːɾˠhəɾʲ/ (as if spelled deártháir or deárthair)[3]

Noun

deartháir m (genitive singular dearthár, nominative plural deartháireacha)

  1. brother

Declension

Coordinate terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deartháir dheartháir ndeartháir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. M. L. Sjoestedt-Jonval (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, p. 17.
  2. Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 87.
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33, § 80.

Further reading

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