a-raoir
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish irráir (“the time before the dawn”) (compare Irish aréir, Manx riyr).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]a-raoir
- last night, last evening
Related terms
[edit]- a' bhòn-raoir (“the night before last”, adverb)
- air bhòn-raoir (“the night before last”, adverb)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “a-raoir”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “irráir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language