"achar" meaning in Irish

See achar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈaxəɾˠ/
Etymology: From Old Irish ochair (“edge”), from Proto-Celtic *okris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris (compare Latin ocris (“rugged mountain”), Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris, “sharp edge”)), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Etymology templates: {{root|ga|ine-pro|*h₂eḱ-}}, {{inh|ga|sga|ochair||edge}} Old Irish ochair (“edge”), {{inh|ga|cel-pro|*okris}} Proto-Celtic *okris, {{inh|ga|ine-pro|*h₂óḱris}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris, {{cog|la|ocris||rugged mountain}} Latin ocris (“rugged mountain”), {{cog|grc|ὄκρις||sharp edge}} Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris, “sharp edge”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|achair||||||||-|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} achar m (genitive singular achair), {{ga-noun|m|achair|-}} achar m (genitive singular achair) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut|msn}} Forms: achair [genitive, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], achar [indefinite, nominative, singular], a achair [indefinite, singular, vocative], achair [genitive, indefinite, singular], achar [dative, indefinite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], an t-achar [definite, nominative, singular], an achair [definite, genitive, singular], leis an achar [dative, definite, singular], don achar [dative, definite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], achar [error-unrecognized-form], n-achar [error-unrecognized-form], hachar [error-unrecognized-form], t-achar [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. distance, extent Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-achar-ga-noun-4nQjyJEx
  2. period of time Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-achar-ga-noun-5ukcLXLl Categories (other): Pages with 8 entries, Pages with entries, Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 8 entries: 11 2 1 14 0 20 1 13 13 10 1 4 1 4 1 1 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 1 1 12 0 28 0 10 11 8 1 6 1 6 1 1 1 3 Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 8 86 6
  3. (geometry) area Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-achar-ga-noun-SpHuXwEG Categories (other): Geometry Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Achar an Dá Lá Dhéag (english: the Twelve Days of Christmas; Epiphany)

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "the Twelve Days of Christmas; Epiphany",
      "translation": "the Twelve Days of Christmas; Epiphany",
      "word": "Achar an Dá Lá Dhéag"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "inh"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "rugged mountain"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ocris (“rugged mountain”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "3": "",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish ochair (“edge”), from Proto-Celtic *okris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris (compare Latin ocris (“rugged mountain”), Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris, “sharp edge”)), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "achar",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an t-achar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an achair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an achar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don achar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "mutation",
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "achar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "n-achar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hachar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "t-achar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "-",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
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        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "achair",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
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        "f4request": "1",
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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
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      },
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    },
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  "lang_code": "ga",
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          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              7,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "english": "How far is that bridge from here?",
          "ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 7:",
          "text": "ḱē n t-axr̥, ə tā ən drehəd šin æš šo?",
          "translation": "How far is that bridge from here?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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          "extent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
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              43,
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              55
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Did you see that cow of mine that I bought a short time ago?",
          "ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 8:",
          "text": "ə wakə tū n bĭaiəx ūd lomsə, a çȧn̄ə mē tā axr̥ gȧŕəȷ?",
          "translation": "Did you see that cow of mine that I bought a short time ago?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "period of time"
      ],
      "id": "en-achar-ga-noun-5ukcLXLl",
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          "period"
        ]
      ],
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        "masculine"
      ]
    },
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      ],
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          "geometry"
        ],
        [
          "area",
          "area"
        ]
      ],
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        "(geometry) area"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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        "geometry",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈaxəɾˠ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "achar"
}
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    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish masculine nouns",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ-",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
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      "english": "the Twelve Days of Christmas; Epiphany",
      "translation": "the Twelve Days of Christmas; Epiphany",
      "word": "Achar an Dá Lá Dhéag"
    }
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      "name": "inh"
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        "4": "sharp edge"
      },
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  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish ochair (“edge”), from Proto-Celtic *okris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris (compare Latin ocris (“rugged mountain”), Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris, “sharp edge”)), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "achair",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "achar",
      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "a achair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "achair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "achar",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an t-achar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an achair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an achar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don achar",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "achar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-achar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hachar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "t-achar",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
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        "10": "",
        "11": "",
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        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "achair",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
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  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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          ],
          "english": "How far is that bridge from here?",
          "ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 7:",
          "text": "ḱē n t-axr̥, ə tā ən drehəd šin æš šo?",
          "translation": "How far is that bridge from here?",
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        }
      ],
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          "english": "Did you see that cow of mine that I bought a short time ago?",
          "ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 8:",
          "text": "ə wakə tū n bĭaiəx ūd lomsə, a çȧn̄ə mē tā axr̥ gȧŕəȷ?",
          "translation": "Did you see that cow of mine that I bought a short time ago?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "period of time"
      ],
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        [
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        ]
      ],
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        "masculine"
      ]
    },
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          "geometry",
          "geometry"
        ],
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          "area",
          "area"
        ]
      ],
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        "(geometry) area"
      ],
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        "masculine"
      ],
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        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈaxəɾˠ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "achar"
}

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