mebuir

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin memoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲeβurʲ]

Noun

mebuir f (genitive mebra)

1. recollection, memory

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mebuir	—	—
Vocative	mebuir	—	—
Accusative	mebuirN	—	—
Genitive	mebroH, mebraH	—	—
Dative	mebuirL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: mebair, mebar, memor
  • Irish: meabhair
  • Scottish Gaelic: meomhair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mebuir also mmebuir after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mebuir 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