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Where does “ionsair” come from?

ionsair (Irish) comes from Irish ionsar, from Irish ár, from Middle Irish ol, from Old Irish ól, from Unami ool, from English Pool, from Middle English pool, from Old English pōl — home; house.

ionsair (Irish): third-person singular masculine of ionsar

Definitions

  1. third-person singular masculine of ionsar

Ancestry of “ionsair”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Irishionsarto, towards
2Irishárour; slaughter, carnage; havoc, destruction
3Middle Irishol—
4Old Irishólverbal noun of ibid; drinking; draught
5Unamiool—
6EnglishPool—
7Middle Englishpool—
8Old Englishpōlpool
9Proto-West Germanic*pōl—
10Proto-Germanicpōlazpool
11Proto-Indo-Europeanbale-bog, marsh
12Yorubailéhome; house

Words derived from “ionsair”

  • ionsairsean
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