cuar
Dalmatian
editVerb
editcuar (third-person singular present cuar)
- Alternative form of curro
Friulian
editAlternative forms
edit- cuâr (alternative orthography)
Etymology
editFrom Latin cornū. Compare Italian corno, Dalmatian cuarno, Spanish cuerno.
Noun
editcuar m (plural cuars)
- horn (animals)
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish cúar, from Proto-Celtic *kukros (“curved”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, see also Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, Proto-Slavic *kuka (“hook”).
Adjective
editcuar (genitive singular masculine cuair, genitive singular feminine cuaire, plural cuara, comparative cuaire)
Declension
editSingular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | cuar | chuar | cuara; chuara² | |
Vocative | chuair | cuara | ||
Genitive | cuaire | cuara | cuar | |
Dative | cuar; chuar¹ |
chuar; chuair (archaic) |
cuara; chuara² | |
Comparative | níos cuaire | |||
Superlative | is cuaire |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun
editcuar m (genitive singular cuair, nominative plural cuair)
- curve
- (nautical) catenary
- Synonym: cuar slabhra
Declension
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
edit- cuarán (“sandal”)
Verb
editcuar (present analytic cuarann, future analytic cuarfaidh, verbal noun cuaradh, past participle cuartha)
Conjugation
edit* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cuar | chuar | gcuar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kukro”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 228
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cuar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Dalmatian lemmas
- Dalmatian verbs
- Friulian terms inherited from Latin
- Friulian terms derived from Latin
- Friulian lemmas
- Friulian nouns
- Friulian masculine nouns
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- ga:Nautical
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish transitive verbs
- Irish intransitive verbs
- ga:Golf
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class A
- ga:Curves