tarr

English

Noun

tarr (plural tarrs)

1. Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”)

Albanian

Etymology

A o- grade continuing Proto-Albanian *tara, related to tjerr.

Verb

tarr (aorist tarra, participle tarrë)

1. to cut (vine)

Related terms

• tjerr

Irish

Alternative forms

• tarra

Etymology

From Old Irish tarr, tairr (“belly, stomach”), from Proto-Celtic *tarrV- (“belly”), of uncertain origin; according to Matasovic, of non-Indo-European origin, but according to MacBain, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to turn, rub”), cognate with Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts, intestines”), Ancient Greek τάμισος (támisos, “rennet”).

Noun

tarr m (genitive singular tairr, nominative plural tairr)

1. (anatomy) belly
2. (biology) venter
3. (architecture) soffit

Declension

Declension of tarr (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tarr tairr vocative a thairr a tharra genitive tairr tarr dative tarr tairr forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tarr na tairr genitive an tairr na dtarr dative leis an tarr don tarr leis na tairr

Derived terms

• aorta tairr (“ventral aorta”)
• gad tairr (“belly-band”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tarr

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tarr	tharr	dtarr

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tarr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarr, tairr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “torrV-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 385
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tarr”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page tàrr

Middle English

Noun

tarr

1. Alternative form of ter