cerr

See also: cërr and çerr

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛr/

Noun

cerr

1. alternative form of cërr

Old English

Noun

ċerr m

1. alternative form of ċierr

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kersos (“maimed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲer/

Adjective

cerr

1. crooked, maimed

Descendants

• Irish: cearr
• Manx: kiare
• Scottish Gaelic: ceàrr

Mutation

Mutation of cerr

radical	lenition	nasalization
cerr	cherr	cerr pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

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), “cerr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language