Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From muir (sea) + a form of Latin ruber (red).

Pronunciation edit

  • (nominative, accusative, or vocative singular) IPA(key): /murʲ r͈ovur/
  • (dative singular) IPA(key): /murʲ rovur/

Proper noun edit

Muir Robur n (genitive Moro Robuir)

  1. Red Sea (a sea between Africa and Arabia)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 96c1
      Du·fuargabsat huisci Moro Robuir intan ro·mboi popul Dǽ for a muir.
      The waters of the Red Sea rose when God's people were on the seashore.

Inflection edit

Neuter i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Muir RoburN
Vocative Muir RoburN
Accusative Muir RoburN
Genitive Moro RobuirL
Dative Muir RoburL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: Muir Romair, Muir Romor

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
Muir Robur
also Mmuir Robur after a proclitic
Muir Robur
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit