saothar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish saíthar,[1] from Proto-Celtic *saitrom, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-trom (“binding, fetter”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

saothar m (genitive singular saothair, nominative plural saothair)

  1. labour (work)
  2. exertion, effort
    gan saothar ― without effort
  3. work (result of effort)
  4. (music) opus
  5. (music, literature) composition, piece
  6. (literary) travail

Declension

Declension of saothar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative saothar saothair
vocative a shaothair a shaothara
genitive saothair saothar
dative saothar saothair
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an saothar na saothair
genitive an tsaothair na saothar
dative leis an saothar
don saothar 		leis na saothair

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • ardsaothar
  • bileog shaothair
  • saothar allamuigh (“field-work”)
  • saothar an bháis (“death-throes”)
  • saothar an lae (“the daily grind”)
  • saothar anála (“panting, laboured breathing”)
  • saothar bradáin (“process of spawning of salmon”)
  • saothar coirp (“manpower”)
  • saothar díreach (“direct labour”)
  • saothar ealaíne (“art, artwork, work of art”)
  • saothar ficsin (“work of fiction”)
  • saothar foirne (“team effort”)
  • saothar in aisce (“lost cause, labour in vain”)
  • saothar indíreach (“indirect labour”)
  • saothar láimhe (“handicraft”)
  • saothar múrealaíne (“wall painting”)
  • saothar seanré (“period piece”)
  • saothar taifeadta (“discography”)
  • saothar teibí (“abstract, abstraction”, noun)
  • saotharlann (“laboratory”)
  • saothrach
  • saothraí
  • saothraigh
  • saothrán (“culture”)
  • scoil saothair

Mutation

Mutated forms of saothar
radical lenition eclipsis
saothar shaothar
after an, tsaothar 		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

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*saytro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 325
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 155, page 79
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44

Further reading

  • “saothar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “saoṫar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 595
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saothar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “saothar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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