acair

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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acair

  1. second-person singular imperative of ad·gair

·acair

  1. third-person singular present indicative prototonic of ad·gair

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
acair
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-acair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish ancaire, accaire, from Latin ancora and Old Norse akkeri.

Noun

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acair f (genitive singular acrach, plural acraichean)

  1. (nautical) anchor
  2. stone (originally one used as an anchor)
  3. handscrew
  4. (architecture) stone to hold the thatch of a house in place

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “acair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ancaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

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Noun

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acair f (genitive singular acrach, plural acraichean)

  1. Alternative form of acaire (acre)
  2. (agriculture) small stack of corn on field

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “acair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Mutation

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