urraim

Irish

From Old Irish airraim (“deference, respect; indulgence, mercy”).[1]

urraim f (genitive singular urraime)

respect, esteem; deferential regard, reverence, veneration
Synonyms: ardmheas, gradam, ómós
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
  Ní raibh aoinne cloinne age n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so.
  Her parents had no children but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl.

Declension of urraim

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urraim	n-urraim	hurraim	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airraim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

urraim m

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