adastor

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *adaxstrom. === Noun === adastor n halter ==== Inflection ==== Neuter gender is not given in DIL, but given its origin as an instrument noun, neuter gender in the Old Irish period is likely. ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: adastar Irish: adhastar Manx: eiystyr Scottish Gaelic: adhastar === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adastar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language