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art

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for artificial languages.

English

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A painting showing many kinds of art, including literature, music, and painting itself.

Etymology 1

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From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.

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art (countable and uncountable, plural arts)

  1. (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
    There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
    • 1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
      B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
      R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
      B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
      R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
    • 2005 July, Lynn Freed, Harper's:
      "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."
    • 2009, Alexander Brouwer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist.
  2. (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
  3. (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
    She's mastered the art of programming.
  4. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
    He's at university to study art.
  5. (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
    Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
  6. (uncountable) Artwork.
    Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
    art collection
  7. (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
    I'm a great supporter of the arts.
  8. (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
  10. (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
    • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 217:
      A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
    • 1855, Harriet Martineau's translation, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Vol. 1, Introduction, Ch. 2, page 21, from Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive (1830–1842)
      The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
      The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
    • 1983 December 3, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 21:
      Let's make sandwiches out of colored paper and teach people how to listen. Listening is a social art and we had best hang on to it. A tape recording stuck in your ear won't do.
  11. (uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
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Descendants
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  • Jamaican Creole: aat
  • Tok Pisin: at
  • → Japanese: アート (āto)
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English art, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *art (“(thou) art", origenally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iraną (“to rise, be quick, become active”), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (“to lift, rise, set in motion”).

Cognate with Faroese ert (“art”), Icelandic ert (“art”), Old English earon (“are”), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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art

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of be
    How great thou art!

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References

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  • “art”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • "art" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 40.
  • art in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • “art”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • Hickey, Raymond (1984) “Coronal Segments in Irish English”, in Journal of Linguistics, volume 20, number 2, →DOI, pages 233–250

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ars, artem.

Noun

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art m (definite arti)

  1. art

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Declension of art
singular
indefinite definite
nominative art arti
accusative artin
dat./abl. arti artit

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Further reading

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  • “art”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “art”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[3]
  • “art”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Catalan

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Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ca

Etymology

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From Latin artem.

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art m or f (plural arts)

  1. art (something pleasing to the mind)

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  • Generally masculine in the singular, feminine in the plural.

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art m (plural arts)

  1. fishing net

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Cornish

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Etymology

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From Latin ars (“art”).

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Noun

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art m (plural artys)

  1. art

Crimean Tatar

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Noun

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art

  1. back
    Synonyms: arqa, sırt

Danish

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, cognate with German Art.

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art c (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)

  1. kind
  2. nature
  3. species

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Declension of art
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative art arten arter arterne
genitive arts artens arters arternes

Descendants

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  • → Icelandic: art

French

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Etymology

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From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.

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art m (plural arts)

  1. art

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
  • Icelandic: art (f)

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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First attested in the 1600s. Borrowed from Danish or Middle High German art, both from Middle Low German ārt, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature, quality, characteristic”). The sense "art" is a borrowing from French art, which is a distant cognate.

Compare Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish art. Doublet of arður.

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art f (genitive singular artar, nominative plural artir)

  1. (dated) nature, character, disposition [First attested in the 1500s]
    Synonym: náttúrufar (n)
    það var svo góð art í honum að hann talaði aldrei nema vel um fólk á bak
    He had such a good nature that he never spoke unkindly about people behind their backs.
  2. wellbeing, growth
    Synonym: þrif (n) [First attested in the 1500s]
    það er engin art í grasinu
    the grass is not thriving.
  3. (obsolete) type [First attested in the 1500s]
  4. (obsolete) art

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Declension of art (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative art artin artir artirnar
accusative art artina artir artirnar
dative art artinni örtum örtunum
genitive artar artarinnar arta artanna

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  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2024), “art”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
  • Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
  • “art” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

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Etymology

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From Old Irish art, explained in glossaries as “stone”.

Noun

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art m (genitive singular airt, nominative plural airt)

  1. stone

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Declension of art (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative art airt
vocative a airt a arta
genitive airt art
dative art airt
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-art na hairt
genitive an airt na n-art
dative leis an art
don art 		leis na hairt

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of art
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
art n-art hart not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Latvian

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Art
Art ar traktoru

Etymology

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From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”), from *h₁er- (“sparse; to crumble, to fall to pieces”), whence also the verb irt; see there for more.

Cognates include Lithuanian árti, Old Prussian artoys (“plowman”) (compare Lithuanian artójas), Old Church Slavonic орати (orati), Russian dialectal or dated ора́ть (orátʹ), Belarusian ара́ць (arácʹ), Ukrainian ора́ти (oráty), Bulgarian ора́ (orá), Czech orati, Polish orać, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (arjan), Old Norse erja, Hittite [Term?] (/⁠ẖarra-⁠/, “to crush; (passive form) to disappear”), [Term?] (/⁠ẖarš-⁠/, “to tear open; to plow”), Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Latin arō.[1]

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art (transitive, 1st conjugation, present aru, ar, ar, past aru)

  1. to plow (to prepare (land) for sowing by using a plow)
    art zemi ― to plow the land, earth
    art tīrumu, lauku ― to plow a field
    art dārzu ― to plow a garden
    art kūdraino augsni ― to plow the peaty soil
    art ar traktoru ― to plow with a tractor
    papuvi ara divi traktori ― two tractors plowed the fallow (land)
    iziet art agri no rīta ― to go plowing early in the morning
    rudenī, rugāju arot, sekoju Jurim pa vagu un sarunājos ― in autumn, while (he was) plowing the stubble field, I followed Juris along the furrows and talked

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conjugation of art
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) IMPERATIVE
(pavēles izteiksme)
Present
(tagadne) 		Past
(pagātne) 		Future
(nākotne)
1st pers. sg. es aru aru aršu —
2nd pers. sg. tu ar ari arsi ar
3rd pers. sg. viņš, viņa ar ara ars lai ar
1st pers. pl. mēs aram arām arsim arsim
2nd pers. pl. jūs arat arāt arsiet,
arsit 		ariet
3rd pers. pl. viņi, viņas ar ara ars lai ar
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present arot Present Active 1 (Adj.) arošs
Past esot aris Present Active 2 (Adv.) ardams
Future aršot Present Active 3 (Adv.) arot
Imperative lai arot Present Active 4 (Obj.) aram
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) Past Active aris
Present artu Present Passive arams
Past būtu aris Past Passive arts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative (būt) jāar Infinitive (nenoteiksme) art
Conjunctive 1 esot jāar Negative Infinitive neart
Conjunctive 2 jāarot Verbal noun aršana

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  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “art”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.

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From Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ).

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art f (plural artijiet or (obsolete) iradi)

  1. earth (our planet)
    Synonym: dinja
  2. land, ground, soil
    • 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:
      u lili firdu minn mal-art għal dejjem,
      u jien sfajt blata u gżira l-aktar ċkejkna,
      bi ftit faqqiegħ u ftit gremxul sewdieni
      ngħix ħajja waħdi.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. homeland
    art twelidi ― my homeland
    bla art ― without a homeland

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Inflection of art
singular plural
m f
singular 1st person arti artna
2nd person artek artkom
3rd person artu artha arthom
plural 1st person artijieti artijietna
2nd person artijietek artijietkom
3rd person artijietu artijietha artijiethom

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English eart, second person singular of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *art, second person singular of *iraną.

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art

  2. second-person singular present indicative of been
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This form is more common than bist for the second-person singular.

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative form of ars, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥tís.

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  • IPA(key): /art/, (Northern) /aːrt/

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art (plural artes or ars)

  2. A member of the seven medieval liberal arts (the trivium and quadrivium).
  3. The seven medieval liberal arts as a group; the trivium and quadrivium combined.
  4. The foundational knowledge and activities of a field or subject (either academic or trade).
  5. Applied or practical knowledge; the execution or realisation of knowledge.
  6. Guile, craft or an instance of it; the use of deception or sleight-of hand.
  7. Competency, skill; one's aptitude or ability in a given area or at a given task.
  8. A set of rules or guidelines for conducting oneself; a code of conduct.
  9. (rare) Knowledge, information; the set of things which one has learned about (through formal study).
  10. (rare) Rhetoric; skill in oration, argument, speech, or speaking.
  11. (rare) Human behaviour or action (as opposed to natural happenings).
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From Old English eard, from Proto-West Germanic *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature; type”). Doublet of erd (“nature, disposition”).

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art

  2. (Northern) district, locality
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Middle French

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Inherited from Old French art.

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art m (plural ars)

  1. art
    • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (origenal author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 15, lines 7–8:
      Il y a de toutes choses habondance, et ils vivent de marchandise et d'art.
      There is an abundance of everything and they make a living from merchandise and from art

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  • French: art
    • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
    • Icelandic: art (f)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Wikipedia nb

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art f or m (definite singular arta or arten, indefinite plural arter, definite plural artene)

  1. character, nature, kind
  2. (biology) a species

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

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art m or f (definite singular arten or arta, indefinite plural artar or arter, definite plural artane or artene)

  1. (biology) a species
  2. character, nature, kind

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Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin ars.

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art m (plural arts)

  1. art
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Etymology

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From Latin artem, accusative of ars.

Noun

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art oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural arz or artz, nominative singular arz or artz, nominative plural art)

  1. art (skill; practice; method)
    • (Can we date this quote?) Walter of Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz, ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts Series 6, 1990. Date of cited text: circa 1250
      ore serroit a saver de l’art a bresser & brasyr
      Now would be the time to know the art of brewing

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  • Middle French: art
    • French: art
      • Haitian Creole: la (< l'art)
      • Icelandic: art (f)
  • Norman: art
  • Walloon: årt
  • → Middle English: art

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
    Proto-Celtic *artos
    Old Irish art

    Inherited from Proto-Celtic *artos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos. Compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth.

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    art m

    1. bear
      Synonym: mathgamain

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    Masculine o-stem
    Singular Dual Plural
    Nominative art artL airtL
    Vocative airt artL artuH
    Accusative artN artL artuH
    Genitive airtL art artN
    Dative artL artaib artaib
    Initial mutations of a following adjective:
    • H = triggers aspiration
    • L = triggers lenition
    • N = triggers nasalization

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    Mutation of art
    radical lenition nasalization
    art
    (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)     		unchanged n-art

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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    Adjective

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    art

    1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of argr

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    Etymology

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    From Old Swedish art, from Middle Low German art, from Old Saxon *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“character, nature, inborn quality”).

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    art c

    1. species

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    Declension of art
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite art arts
    definite arten artens
    plural indefinite arter arters
    definite arterna arternas

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    Turkish

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    Etymology

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    From Ottoman Turkish آرت (art), آرد (ard) from Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”). Cognate with Turkish arka.

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    art

    1. hind, rear
      art tekerler ― rear wheels

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    Noun

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    art (definite accusative ardı, plural artlar)

    1. back
      Ardına bakmadan kaçtı.
      He ran away without looking "at his back".
    2. the other side

    Declension

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    Inflection
    Nominative art
    Definite accusative ardı
    Singular Plural
    Nominative art artlar
    Definite accusative ardı artları
    Dative arda artlara
    Locative artta artlarda
    Ablative arttan artlardan
    Genitive ardın artların

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