dáir

See also: dair and dàir

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dáir (“bulling, heat”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dáir f (genitive singular dárach)

  1. heat (eagerness to mate, in cows)

Declension
Declension of dáir

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative dáir
Vocative a dháir
Genitive dárach
Dative dáir
dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an dáir
Genitive na dárach
Dative leis an dáir
leis an dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

don dáir
don dáraigh (archaic, dialectal)

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