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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish eigre,[2] from Anglo-Norman eir, heir, from Latin hēres; cognate with Scottish Gaelic oighre, Manx eirey.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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oidhre m (genitive singular oidhre, nominative plural oidhrí)

  1. heir

Declension

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Declension of oidhre (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative oidhre oidhrí
vocative a oidhre a oidhrí
genitive oidhre oidhrí
dative oidhre oidhrí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-oidhre na hoidhrí
genitive an oidhre na n-oidhrí
dative leis an oidhre
don oidhre 		leis na hoidhrí

Coordinate terms

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Related terms

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  • oidhreacht (“heritage; heredity; inheritance”)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of oidhre
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oidhre n-oidhre hoidhre t-oidhre

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

References

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  1. ^ “oidhre”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eigre, oigre, eiger, eigir, oigir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 5
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 160, page 61

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