àr

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ar"

German Low German

Conjunction

àr

  1. (Westphalian) Alternative form of àder

Mandarin

Romanization

àr (ar4, Zhuyin ㄚˋㄦ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of R

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ár (“slaughter”), from Proto-Celtic *agros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵro- (“hunt”); compare Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “hunt”).

Noun

àr m (genitive singular àir, plural àir)

  1. slaughter, carnage (more severe than marbh).

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
àrn-àrh-àrt-àr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “àr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “àr”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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