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{{short description|Wife of Cú Chulainn in Irish mythology}} {{About|the wife of the Irish hero Cú Chulainn|Emer, the early Jaredite king|List of Book of Mormon people#E}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2017}} [[File:Cuchulainn rebuked by Emer Millar.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Emer rebuking [[Cú Chulainn]]. (1905 illustration by [[H. R. Millar]].)]] '''Emer''' ({{IPA|sga|ˈẽβ̃ʲər|lang}}), in modern [[Irish language|Irish]] '''{{lang|ga|Eimhear|italic=no}}''' or '''{{lang|ga|Éimhear|italic=no}}''' (with variations including '''{{lang|ga|Eimer|italic=no}}''', '''{{lang|ga|Eimear|italic=no}}''' and '''{{lang|ga|Éimear|italic=no}}''')<ref>Medially and finally {{lang|sga|m}} is a bilabial fricative in Old Irish (represented in Modern Irish by {{lang|ga|mh}}): E.G. Quinn, ''Old-Irish Workbook'', Royal Irish Academy, 1975, p. 5.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iol.ie/~sob/ainm/ |title=Ainmneacha Gaelacha |access-date=2009-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015062152/http://www.iol.ie/~sob/ainm/ |archive-date=2009-10-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in [[Scottish Gaelic]] '''{{lang|gd|Eimhir|italic=no}}''', is the name of the daughter of Forgall Monach and the wife of the hero [[Cú Chulainn]] in the [[Ulster Cycle]] of [[Irish mythology]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Larsen |first=Erik |date=2003 |title=Cú Chulainn: God, Man, or Animal? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25660733 |journal=Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium |volume=23 |pages=172–183 |jstor=25660733 |issn=1545-0155}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Findon |first1=J |last2=Bourke |first2=A |date=1999 |title=A Woman's Words: Emer & Female Speech in the Ulster Cycle |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/fdf3d18220ea4d29eb0bcca3e4c15547/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=48796 |journal=University of Toronto Quarterly}}</ref>
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