feirm
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *firmō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from *firhu- (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feirm f (genitive singular feirme, nominative plural feirmeacha)
Declension edit
Declension of feirm
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
feirm | fheirm | bhfeirm |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feirm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “feirm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language