cuar

See also: çuar

Dalmatian

Verb

cuar (third-person singular present cuar)

  1. alternative form of curro

Friulian

Alternative forms

  • cuâr (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin cornū. Compare Italian corno, Dalmatian cuarno, Spanish cuerno.

Noun

cuar m (plural cuars)

  1. horn (animals)

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cúar, from Proto-Celtic *kukros (curved), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, see also Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, Proto-Slavic *kuka (hook).

Adjective

cuar (genitive singular masculine cuair, genitive singular feminine cuaire, plural cuara, comparative cuaire)

  1. curved
    Synonyms: cuarach, cuartha

Declension

Declension of cuar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cuar chuar cuara;
chuara2
vocative chuair cuara
genitive cuaire cuara cuar
dative cuar;
chuar1
chuar;
chuair (archaic)
cuara;
chuara2
Comparative níos cuaire
Superlative is cuaire

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

cuar m (genitive singular cuair, nominative plural cuair)

  1. curve
  2. (nautical) catenary
    Synonym: cuar slabhra

Declension

Declension of cuar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cuar cuair
vocative a chuair a chuara
genitive cuair cuar
dative cuar cuair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cuar na cuair
genitive an chuair na gcuar
dative leis an gcuar
don chuar
leis na cuair

Derived terms

Verb

cuar (present analytic cuarann, future analytic cuarfaidh, verbal noun cuaradh, past participle cuartha)

  1. (ambitransitive) curve
  2. (ambitransitive, golf) fade

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuar
radical lenition eclipsis
cuar chuar gcuar

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

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kukro”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 228

Further reading