mebair

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• mebar, memor

Etymology

From Old Irish mebuir, from Latin memoria.

Noun

mebair f (genitive mebra)

1. recollection, memory

Descendants

• Irish: meabhair
• Scottish Gaelic: meomhair

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mebair	mebair 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mebair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language