bert

burden, load, bundle
- c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 264
  Etar·scarfaider cach mbert corcai chuindfig fri cruithnecht.
  He will separate every bundle of tares from wheat.
(figurative) burden, weight (of grief, etc.)
clothing, covering, clothes, attire, apparel; accoutrement
deed, exploit; feat, trick; effort, task; action, behaviour; move, play (in a game), game

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bert^L	beirt^L	berta^H
Vocative	bert^L	beirt^L	berta^H
Accusative	beirt^N	beirt^L	berta^H
Genitive	beirte^H	bert^L	bert^N
Dative	beirt^L	bertaib	bertaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bert^N	bert^N	bert^L, berta
Vocative	bert^N	bert^N	bert^L, berta
Accusative	bert^N	bert^N	bert^L, berta
Genitive	beirt^L	bert	bert^N
Dative	bert^L	bertaib	bertaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Bert is used to form the verbal nouns of most of the derivatives of beirid, instead of breth. All of these derivatives are feminine ā-stems.

Verbal nouns derived from bert

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “ber-o”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 62

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

·bert

bert

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bert	bert pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbert
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Norse edit

Neuter of berr.

bert

bert

“bert”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press