úathmar

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈuːa̯θβ̃ar]

Adjective

úathmar

1. dreadful, terrible, terrifying
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 45^a6

     huathmar glosses terribile

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fúathmar
  • Modern Irish: fuafar

Mutation

Mutation of úathmar

radical	lenition	nasalization
úathmar (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-úathmar

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language