úathmar

Old Irish

Etymology

From úath (fear, horror, terror) + -mar (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuːa̯θṽar/

Adjective

úathmar

  1. dreadful, terrible, terrifying
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 45a6
      huathmar glosses terribile

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: fúathmar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
úathmar unchanged n-úathmar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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