asbeir
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From ess- + beirid. The same construction as Latin efferō, which can mean (among other things) “proclaim, declare”, and Ancient Greek ἐκφέρω (ekphérō), which can mean “disclose”.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
as·beir (prototonic ·epir, verbal noun epert)
- to say, utter
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 1d1
- .i. nísnain ciasberat níntánicc recht
- i.e. it will not protect them that they say ‘the Law has not come to us’
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13c13:
- niérbarid autem uerba asbeir intóis anfoirbthe
- ye should not utter autem uerba which the imperfect folk utters
- c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 14a2
- Bés as·bera-su as n‑ai⟨n⟩m dosom animus ci at·bela.
- Maybe you would say that animus is its name though it may die.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 1d1
- to mention
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28a20:
- .i. asbertar ananman arnagaba nech desimrecht diib
- i.e. their names are mentioned that no one may take example from them
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28a20:
- to speak (a language)
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12d6:
- .i. arnitucci ambéelre asbiur
- i.e. for he understands not the language I speak
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12d6:
Usage notes edit
The present and imperfect indicative ro-forms as·robair, as·robarad mean ‘can say’, ‘could say’.
Conjugation edit
Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Internal:
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
as·beir | as·beir pronounced with /-v(ʲ)-/ |
as·mbeir |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
External:
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
as·beir | unchanged | n-as·beir |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “as-beir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 466