arathar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish arathar, from Proto-Celtic *aratrom (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

Noun

arathar m (genitive singular arathair)

1. (literary, agriculture) ploughing equipment, plough; ploughing

Declension

Declension of arathar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative arathar vocative a arathair genitive arathair dative arathar forms with the definite article singular nominative an t-arathar genitive an arathair dative leis an arathar don arathar

Synonyms

• (plough): céachta, seisreach
• (ploughing): treabhadh

Mutation

Mutated forms of arathar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
arathar	n-arathar	harathar	t-arathar

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “arathar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *aratrom (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɾə.θəɾ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈa.ɾa.θaɾ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈa.ɾə.θəɾ]

Noun

arathar m (genitive arathair, nominative plural arathair)

1. plough, ploughing equipment

Declension

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	arathar	aratharL	arathairL
vocative	arathair	aratharL	arathruH
accusative	aratharN	aratharL	arathruH
genitive	arathairL	arathar	aratharN
dative	aratharL	arathraib	arathraib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: arathar

Mutation

Mutation of arathar

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

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

Further reading

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