Old Irish

adarc

Noun

adarc f ‎(genitive adarcae)

1. horn (growth on an animal's head)
   • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 2^b16:

     tob di humu fo chosmailius n-adarcae side

     a trumpet of bronze in the shape of a horn

   • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 63^b17:

     nanní fris·oirc doib fa·scannat hua n-adarcaib

     whatever offends them, they toss it with their horns

   • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 116^c8:

     orgain humaidi fo chosmailius n-adarcae

     bronze instruments in the shape of a horn

Inflection

Synonyms

• benn
• congna

Derived terms

• adarcach

Descendants

• Irish: adharc
• Manx: eairk
• Scottish Gaelic: adharc

Mutation

References

1. ↑ R. L. Trask, The History of Basque
2. ↑ Mother Tongue: Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, issue 5 (1999): [Compare] Basque adar 'horn' - Old Irish adarc 'hom': since the latter has no Indo- European etymology, it is probably borrowed from Vasconic *adar-ko 'little horn'.

• “1 adarc, aiderc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.