Where does “urlabhraí” come from?
urlabhraí (Irish) comes from Irish úr, from Old Irish ór, from Latin aurum, from Latin ausum, from Latin ausus, from Latin audeō, from Latin avidus, from Latin -idus.
urlabhraí (Irish): spokesperson
Definitions
- spokesperson
Ancestry of “urlabhraí”, step by step
urlabhraí traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Irish úr
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | úr | fresh; new; free, liberal; moist |
| 2 | Old Irish | ór | gold |
| 3 | Latin | aurum | gold; any object made of gold, such as a gold... |
| 4 | Latin | ausum | nominative neuter singular of ausus; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | ausus | dared, having dared, ventured, having ventured,... |
| 6 | Latin | audeō | to dare, venture, risk |
| 7 | Latin | avidus | Greedy, avaricious, covetous; Eager,... |
| 8 | Latin | -idus | tending to |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *-iðos | — |
via Irish labhair
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | labhair | speak |
| 2 | Old Irish | labraithir | to speak, to say; For quotations using this term,... |
| 3 | Old Irish | -aid | forms [[AP:Old Irish class A I present verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Celtic | -āti | Forms verbs from nouns and adjectives |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ti | Forms factitive verbs from adjective stems |