tarr

English

Noun

tarr (plural tarrs)

1. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”)

Albanian

Etymology

A o- grade continuing Proto-Albanian *tara, related to tjerr.

Verb

tarr (aorist tarra, participle tarrë)

1. to cut (vine)

Related terms

• tjerr

Irish

Alternative forms

• tarra

Etymology

From Old Irish tarr, tairr (“belly, stomach”), from Proto-Celtic *tarrV- (“belly”), of uncertain origin; according to Matasovic, of non-Indo-European origin, but according to MacBain, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to turn, rub”), cognate with Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts, intestines”), Ancient Greek τάμισος (támisos, “rennet”).

Noun

tarr m (genitive singular tairr, nominative plural tairr)

1. (anatomy) belly
2. (biology) venter
3. (architecture) soffit

Declension

Declension of tarr

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative tarr tairr Vocative a thairr a tharra Genitive tairr tarr Dative tarr tairr

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an tarr na tairr Genitive an tairr na dtarr Dative leis an tarr don tarr leis na tairr

Derived terms

• aorta tairr (“ventral aorta”)
• gad tairr (“belly-band”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tarr	tharr	dtarr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tarr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarr, tairr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “torrV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 385
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tarr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page tàrr

Middle English

Noun

tarr

1. Alternative form of ter