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odur

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See also: óður

Azerbaijani

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈodur]
  • Hyphenation: o‧dur

Pronoun

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odur

  1. third-person present copular of o

Middle English

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Noun

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odur

  1. Alternative form of odour

Old French

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Etymology

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Latin odor

Noun

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odur oblique singularm (oblique plural odurs, nominative singular odurs, nominative plural odur)

  1. odour; scent; smell

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *udros, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (aquatic).[1] Matasović is unsure on how the semantics arose, but it might be either from the colour of the water itself or that of the otters within.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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odur

  1. dun, greyish-brown
    • c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 32d
      saurus .i. odur(with saurus assumed to be a vulgar form of surrufus)

Inflection

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o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative odur odur odur
Vocative uidir*
odur**
Accusative odur uidir
Genitive uidir uidre uidir
Dative odur uidir odur
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative uidir odra
Vocative odru
odra
Accusative odru
odra
Genitive odur
Dative odraib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: odor, odar

Mutation

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Mutation of odur
radical lenition nasalization
odur
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-odur

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*uden-sk-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 395

Further reading

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