urchar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airchor m (“act of putting forward, extending; cast, shot; dart or weapon discharged”), verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“increases, extends; prolongs”).

Noun

urchar m (genitive singular urchair, nominative plural urchair)

cast, shot
(typography, of bulleted lists) bullet
round (of ammunition)
(athletics) starting gun

Declension

Declension of urchar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	urchar	urchair
Vocative	a urchair	a urchara
Genitive	urchair	urchar
Dative	urchar	urchair

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-urchar	na hurchair
Genitive	an urchair	na n-urchar
Dative	leis an urchar don urchar	leis na hurchair

Derived terms

urchar cnoic, urchar díobhaill, urchar millte (“‘fairy dart’, louping-ill”)
urchar díslí (“cast of dice”)
urchar gunna (“gunshot”)
urchar spóil (“throw of shuttle (in loom)”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urchar	n-urchar	hurchar	t-urchar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"urchar" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “airchor”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

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