Muir Robur
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom muir (“sea”) + a form of Latin ruber (“red”).
Pronunciation
edit- (nominative, accusative, or vocative singular): IPA(key): [ˈmurʲ ˈr͈oβur]
- (dative singular): IPA(key): [ˈmurʲ ˈroβur]
Proper noun
editMuir Robur n (genitive Moro Robuir)
- 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.
- 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
Inflection
editNeuter i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | Muir RoburN | — | — |
Vocative | Muir RoburN | — | — |
Accusative | Muir RoburN | — | — |
Genitive | Moro RobuirL | — | — |
Dative | Muir RoburL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
edit- Middle Irish: Muir Romair, Muir Romor
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
Muir Robur also Mmuir Robur after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
Muir Robur pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “robur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language