othar

See also: oðar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish othar (“sickness, illness; state of being tended in illness, nursing, sick-attendance; a sick or wounded man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔhəɾˠ/

Noun

othar m (genitive singular othair, nominative plural othair)

1. invalid, patient (person who receives medical treatment)
2. sickness, wound
3. festering state; matter, pus

Declension

Declension of othar (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative othar othair vocative a othair a othara genitive othair othar dative othar othair forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-othar na hothair genitive an othair na n-othar dative leis an othar don othar leis na hothair

Derived terms

• cathaoir othair (“invalid chair”)
• fear othair (“sick, wounded, man”)
• liosta othar (“sick list”)
• othar seachtrach (“out-patient”)
• otharcharr (“ambulance”)
• otharlann (“infirmary, sickbay”)
• otharluí (“invalid state, sick-bed; burial-place, grave”)
• otharthraein (“ambulance train”)

Related terms

• othras (“sickness, illness; ulcer”)
• othrasach (“sick, wounded; ulcerous”, adjective)
• othrasaigh (“ulcerate”, verb)
• othrasú (“ulceration”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of othar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
othar	n-othar	hothar	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “othar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 othar, (uthar)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language