feur

Cornish

Adjective

feur

1. Mixed mutation of meur.

Mutation

  Mutation of feur  

Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
meur	veur	unchanged	unchanged	feur	veur

French

Pronunciation

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Interjection

feur

1. (chiefly Internet, humorous) a humorous response to the word quoi (what) or pourquoi (why), as "quoi feur" sounds identical to the word coiffeur (hairdresser).

Irish

Noun

feur m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural feura)

1. Obsolete spelling of féar (“grass”).

Declension

Declension of feur

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative feur feura Vocative a fhéir a fheura Genitive féir feur Dative feur feura

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an feur na feura Genitive an fhéir na bhfeur Dative leis an bhfeur don fheur leis na feura

Mutation

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

Etymology

From Old Irish fér, from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiəɾ/

Noun

feur m (genitive singular feòir)

1. grass
2. hay
3. grassland, pasture, herbage

Derived terms

• feur-itheach (“herbivorous”, adjective)
• fiabhras-feòir

 

Verb

feur (past dh'fheur, future feuraidh, verbal noun feuradh, past participle feurte)

1. (dated, transitive, intransitive) graze

   Synonym: feuraich

Mutation

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

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “feur”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language