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German Low German

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Conjunction

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àr

  1. (Westphalian) Alternative form of àder

Mandarin

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Romanization

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àr (ar4, Zhuyin ㄚˋㄦ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of R

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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

Noun

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àr m (genitive singular àir, plural àir)

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

Mutation

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Mutation of àr
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
àr n-àr h-àr t-àr

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

References

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  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “àr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “àr”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language