dàir

See also: dair and dáir

Mandarin

Romanization

dàir (dair4, Zhuyin ㄉㄞˋㄦ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 帶兒／带儿
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 袋兒／袋儿

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish dair, from Old Irish *dârô, dairid, from Proto-Celtic *daryeti (“to leap upon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰr̥h₃-yé-ti, from *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring forth”).[1]

Verb

dàir (past dhàir, future dàiridh, verbal noun dàir or dàireadh, past participle dàirte)

  1. rut, copulate

Noun

dàir f

  1. (Lewis) calving

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dàir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page dàir
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