fír
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
fír
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
fír
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fír | fhír | bhfír |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Nominative singular all genders; feminine and neuter vocative singular; masculine and neuter accusative and dative singular; genitive plural all genders:
Masculine vocative singular; masculine and neuter genitive singular; feminine accusative and dative singular; masculine nominative plural:
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *wīros.
Adjective edit
fír
- true
- 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. 22b23
- Ci as·bera nech ro·pïa nem cía du·gneid na rétu sa, nípa fír.
- Even if anyone says you pl will have heaven although you do these things, it will not be true.
- 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. 22b23
Inflection edit
o/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | fír | fír | fír |
Vocative | fír | ||
Accusative | fír | fír | |
Genitive | fír | fíre | fír |
Dative | fír | fír | fír |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | fír | fíra | |
Vocative | fíru fíra† | ||
Accusative | fíru fíra† | ||
Genitive | fír | ||
Dative | fíraib | ||
Notes | † not when substantivized |
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Celtic *wīrom.
Noun edit
fír n
Inflection edit
Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | fírN | fírN | fírL, fíra |
Vocative | fírN | fírN | fírL, fíra |
Accusative | fírN | fírN | fírL, fíra |
Genitive | fírL | fír | fírN |
Dative | fírL | fíraib | fíraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fír | ḟír | fír pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
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), “fír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language