airchor

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === airchur, erchor, erchur === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *ɸarekoros (“shot, thrust, throw”). === Noun === airchor m (unattested sense) verbal noun of ar·cuirethar dart, missile ==== Usage notes ==== Presumably the verbal noun of ar·cuirethar (“to extend”), but not attested as such until Middle Irish. ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: airchor Irish: urchar Manx: orraghey Scottish Gaelic: urchair === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language