Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fair.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fér (indeclinable)

  1. fair (just, equitable)
    Antonym: nefér
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Further reading

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  • fér”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • fér”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fér

  1. (intransitive) to have enough room (space), to find place, to fit (somewhere, into something: -ba/-be)
    Annyi csokoládét vehetsz, amennyi a tenyeredbe fér.Take as much chocolate as you can hold in your palm.

Conjugation

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(With verbal prefixes):

Expressions

Further reading

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  • fér in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *wegrom (grass), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (increase, enlarge) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1] Cognate with Cornish gora and Welsh gwair (hay).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fér n (genitive féuir, nominative plural féra)

  1. grass

Inflection

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Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative férN férN férL, féra
Vocative férN férN férL, féra
Accusative férN férN férL, féra
Genitive féuirL fér férN
Dative féorL féraib féraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: féar
  • Manx: faiyr
  • Scottish Gaelic: feur

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409

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