sodar

English

Etymology

Short for sonic detection and ranging; compare radar, sonar.

Pronunciation

Noun

sodar (uncountable)

  1. A system resembling sonar but used in the air, for meteorological measurements, rather than in water.

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠɔd̪ˠəɾˠ/[1]

Noun

sodar m (genitive singular sodair)

  1. (functioning as a verbal noun) (act of) trotting (walk rapidly; move at a gait between walk and canter)
  2. a trot (gait of an animal between walk and canter; gait of a person faster than a walk)

Declension
Declension of sodar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Vocative a shodair
Genitive sodair
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Genitive an tsodair
Dative leis an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

don Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
  • ar sodar (“at a trot, on the double”)
  • bogshodar
  • de shodar (“at a trot, in a hurry”)
  • geamhshodar
  • gearrshodar
  • sodaire
  • sodar i ndiaidh (“toadying to, sucking up to”)
  • sodarnaíl

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 90

Further reading
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