feur
Cornish edit
Adjective edit
feur
- Mixed mutation of meur.
Mutation edit
Mutation of feur
| Cornish consonant mutation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed | mixed after 'th |
| meur | veur | unchanged | unchanged | feur | veur |
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Interjection edit
feur
Irish edit
Noun edit
feur m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural feura)
Declension edit
Declension of feur
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| feur | fheur | bhfeur |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish fér, from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
feur m (genitive singular feòir)
Derived terms edit
- feur-itheach (“herbivorous”, adjective)
- fiabhras-feòir
Verb edit
feur (past dh'fheur, future feuraidh, verbal noun feuradh, past participle feurte)
- (dated, transitive, intransitive) graze
- Synonym: feuraich
Mutation edit
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| feur | fheur |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “feur”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language