"cathair" meaning in Old Irish

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkaθərʲ/, [ˈkaθɨrʲ]
Etymology: From Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”); possibly cognate with Old English hēaþor (“enclosure, prison”) or Serbo-Croatian kȍtar (“administrative unit, province”). Etymology templates: {{inh|sga|cel-pro|*katrixs|t=fortification}} Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”), {{cog|ang|hēaþor|t=enclosure, prison}} Old English hēaþor (“enclosure, prison”), {{cog|sh|kȍtar|t=administrative unit, province}} Serbo-Croatian kȍtar (“administrative unit, province”) Head templates: {{head|sga|noun|||genitive|cathrach|||||||nominative plural|cathraig||{{{pl2}}}||{{{pl3}}}|cat2=|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig), {{sga-noun|f|cathrach|cathraig}} cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig) Inflection templates: {{sga-decl-k&g|k|cathraig|cathrach|dat_sg2=caithir|g=f}}, {{sga-decl-noun|acc_du=cathraig+L|acc_du2=|acc_du3=|acc_pl=cathracha|acc_pl2=|acc_pl3=|acc_sg=cathraig+N|acc_sg2=|acc_sg3=|class=k-f|dat_du=cathrachaib|dat_du2=|dat_du3=|dat_pl=cathrachaib|dat_pl2=|dat_pl3=|dat_sg=cathraig+L|dat_sg2=caithir|dat_sg3=|gen_du=cathrach|gen_du2=|gen_du3=|gen_pl=cathrach+N|gen_pl2=|gen_pl3=|gen_sg=cathrach|gen_sg2=|gen_sg3=|n=|nom_du=cathraig+L|nom_du2=|nom_du3=|nom_pl=cathraig|nom_pl2=|nom_pl3=|nom_sg=cathair|nom_sg2=|nom_sg3=|voc_du=cathraig+L|voc_du2=|voc_du3=|voc_pl=cathracha|voc_pl2=|voc_pl3=|voc_sg=cathair|voc_sg2=|voc_sg3=}}, {{sga-mutation|c|athair}} Forms: cathrach [genitive], cathraig [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], cathair [nominative, singular], cathraig [dual, nominative], cathraig [nominative, plural], cathair [singular, vocative], cathraig [dual, vocative], cathracha [plural, vocative], cathraig [accusative, singular], cathraig [accusative, dual], cathracha [accusative, plural], cathrach [genitive, singular], cathrach [dual, genitive], cathrach [genitive, plural], cathraig [dative, singular], caithir [dative, singular], cathrachaib [dative, dual], cathrachaib [dative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], cathair [mutation, mutation-radical], chathair [mutation, mutation-nasal], cathair [mutation]
  1. stone enclosure, fortress, castle; dwelling Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Buildings
    Sense id: en-cathair-sga-noun-gQMGXD6M Disambiguation of Buildings: 46 50 4
  2. monastic settlement, enclosure; monastery, convent Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Buildings, Monasticism
    Sense id: en-cathair-sga-noun-fvkeaqiY Disambiguation of Buildings: 46 50 4 Disambiguation of Monasticism: 18 78 4 Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old Irish entries with incorrect language header: 28 51 21
  3. fortified city, city Tags: feminine Categories (place): Cities
    Sense id: en-cathair-sga-noun-O41YjJSA Disambiguation of Cities: 7 33 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: caithir, cathir Derived forms: cathrar (english: citizen)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "citizen",
      "word": "cathrar"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "cathair"
          },
          "expansion": "Irish: cathair",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: cathair"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gv",
            "2": "caayr"
          },
          "expansion": "Manx: caayr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Manx: caayr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "cathair"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: cathair",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scottish Gaelic: cathair"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*katrixs",
        "t": "fortification"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hēaþor",
        "t": "enclosure, prison"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hēaþor (“enclosure, prison”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
        "2": "kȍtar",
        "t": "administrative unit, province"
      },
      "expansion": "Serbo-Croatian kȍtar (“administrative unit, province”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”); possibly cognate with Old English hēaþor (“enclosure, prison”) or Serbo-Croatian kȍtar (“administrative unit, province”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-k&g",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "k-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Feminine k-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathracha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathracha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caithir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrachaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrachaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-mutation",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chathair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-nasal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "nominative plural",
        "14": "cathraig",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "genitive",
        "6": "cathrach",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "cathrach",
        "3": "cathraig"
      },
      "expansion": "cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig)",
      "name": "sga-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "k",
        "2": "cathraig",
        "3": "cathrach",
        "dat_sg2": "caithir",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-k&g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "acc_du": "cathraig+L",
        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_pl": "cathracha",
        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "cathraig+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "class": "k-f",
        "dat_du": "cathrachaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "cathrachaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "cathraig+L",
        "dat_sg2": "caithir",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "gen_du": "cathrach",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "cathrach+N",
        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "cathrach",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "",
        "nom_du": "cathraig+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_pl": "cathraig",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "cathair",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "voc_du": "cathraig+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_pl": "cathracha",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "cathair",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": ""
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-noun"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "c",
        "2": "athair"
      },
      "name": "sga-mutation"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 50 4",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Buildings",
          "orig": "sga:Buildings",
          "parents": [
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "stone enclosure, fortress, castle; dwelling"
      ],
      "id": "en-cathair-sga-noun-gQMGXD6M",
      "links": [
        [
          "enclosure",
          "enclosure"
        ],
        [
          "fortress",
          "fortress"
        ],
        [
          "castle",
          "castle"
        ],
        [
          "dwelling",
          "dwelling"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "28 51 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 50 4",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Buildings",
          "orig": "sga:Buildings",
          "parents": [
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 78 4",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Monasticism",
          "orig": "sga:Monasticism",
          "parents": [
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She was not harsh to guests: gentle was she to the wretched sick:\non a plain she built a convent: may it protect hosts into the Kingdom!",
          "ref": "c. 800, Broccán’s Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 328, ll. 9–10",
          "roman": "for maig arutacht cathir dollaid rosnāde slúagu.",
          "text": "Nī bo fri óigthea acher cāinbói fri lobru trúagu:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "monastic settlement, enclosure; monastery, convent"
      ],
      "id": "en-cathair-sga-noun-fvkeaqiY",
      "links": [
        [
          "monastic",
          "monastic"
        ],
        [
          "settlement",
          "settlement"
        ],
        [
          "enclosure",
          "enclosure"
        ],
        [
          "monastery",
          "monastery"
        ],
        [
          "convent",
          "convent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 33 60",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "sga",
          "name": "Cities",
          "orig": "sga:Cities",
          "parents": [
            "Polities",
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "this appearance, then, is manifested to the five hundred […] that was in the city at that time",
          "text": "(do·adb)adar in taidbsiu hi siu tra do(naib) coic cetaib […] ro·bói isin chaithir isind aimsir sin",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.",
          "text": "Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fortified city, city"
      ],
      "id": "en-cathair-sga-noun-O41YjJSA",
      "links": [
        [
          "fortified",
          "fortified"
        ],
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaθərʲ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkaθɨrʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "caithir"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "cathir"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Brill Publishers"
  ],
  "word": "cathair"
}
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    "Old Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old Irish feminine nouns",
    "Old Irish k-stem nouns",
    "Old Irish lemmas",
    "Old Irish nouns",
    "Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "gd-noun 2",
    "gd:Brassicas",
    "gd:Chairs",
    "gd:Cities",
    "gd:Vegetables",
    "sga:Buildings",
    "sga:Cities",
    "sga:Monasticism"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "citizen",
      "word": "cathrar"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
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            "1": "ga",
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          },
          "expansion": "Irish: cathair",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Irish: cathair"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gv",
            "2": "caayr"
          },
          "expansion": "Manx: caayr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Manx: caayr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gd",
            "2": "cathair"
          },
          "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic: cathair",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scottish Gaelic: cathair"
    }
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "hēaþor",
        "t": "enclosure, prison"
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      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "sh",
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”); possibly cognate with Old English hēaþor (“enclosure, prison”) or Serbo-Croatian kȍtar (“administrative unit, province”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sga-decl-k&g",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "k-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Feminine k-stem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathracha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathracha",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathraig",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caithir",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrachaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathrachaib",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "sga-mutation",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
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      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chathair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-nasal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cathair",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "nominative plural",
        "14": "cathraig",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{pl3}}}",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "genitive",
        "6": "cathrach",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "g": "f",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig)",
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "cathrach",
        "3": "cathraig"
      },
      "expansion": "cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig)",
      "name": "sga-noun"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "k",
        "2": "cathraig",
        "3": "cathrach",
        "dat_sg2": "caithir",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "name": "sga-decl-k&g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "acc_du": "cathraig+L",
        "acc_du2": "",
        "acc_du3": "",
        "acc_pl": "cathracha",
        "acc_pl2": "",
        "acc_pl3": "",
        "acc_sg": "cathraig+N",
        "acc_sg2": "",
        "acc_sg3": "",
        "class": "k-f",
        "dat_du": "cathrachaib",
        "dat_du2": "",
        "dat_du3": "",
        "dat_pl": "cathrachaib",
        "dat_pl2": "",
        "dat_pl3": "",
        "dat_sg": "cathraig+L",
        "dat_sg2": "caithir",
        "dat_sg3": "",
        "gen_du": "cathrach",
        "gen_du2": "",
        "gen_du3": "",
        "gen_pl": "cathrach+N",
        "gen_pl2": "",
        "gen_pl3": "",
        "gen_sg": "cathrach",
        "gen_sg2": "",
        "gen_sg3": "",
        "n": "",
        "nom_du": "cathraig+L",
        "nom_du2": "",
        "nom_du3": "",
        "nom_pl": "cathraig",
        "nom_pl2": "",
        "nom_pl3": "",
        "nom_sg": "cathair",
        "nom_sg2": "",
        "nom_sg3": "",
        "voc_du": "cathraig+L",
        "voc_du2": "",
        "voc_du3": "",
        "voc_pl": "cathracha",
        "voc_pl2": "",
        "voc_pl3": "",
        "voc_sg": "cathair",
        "voc_sg2": "",
        "voc_sg3": ""
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "c",
        "2": "athair"
      },
      "name": "sga-mutation"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Irish",
  "lang_code": "sga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "stone enclosure, fortress, castle; dwelling"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enclosure",
          "enclosure"
        ],
        [
          "fortress",
          "fortress"
        ],
        [
          "castle",
          "castle"
        ],
        [
          "dwelling",
          "dwelling"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Irish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "She was not harsh to guests: gentle was she to the wretched sick:\non a plain she built a convent: may it protect hosts into the Kingdom!",
          "ref": "c. 800, Broccán’s Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 328, ll. 9–10",
          "roman": "for maig arutacht cathir dollaid rosnāde slúagu.",
          "text": "Nī bo fri óigthea acher cāinbói fri lobru trúagu:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "monastic settlement, enclosure; monastery, convent"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "monastic",
          "monastic"
        ],
        [
          "settlement",
          "settlement"
        ],
        [
          "enclosure",
          "enclosure"
        ],
        [
          "monastery",
          "monastery"
        ],
        [
          "convent",
          "convent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Irish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "this appearance, then, is manifested to the five hundred […] that was in the city at that time",
          "text": "(do·adb)adar in taidbsiu hi siu tra do(naib) coic cetaib […] ro·bói isin chaithir isind aimsir sin",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.",
          "text": "Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fortified city, city"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fortified",
          "fortified"
        ],
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkaθərʲ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkaθɨrʲ]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "caithir"
    },
    {
      "word": "cathir"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Brill Publishers"
  ],
  "word": "cathair"
}

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  "subsection": "noun",
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