fír
Irish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
editfír
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms
editVerb
editfír
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fír | fhír | bhfír |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62
Old Irish
editPronunciation
editNominative singular all genders; feminine and neuter vocative singular; masculine and neuter accusative and dative singular; genitive plural all genders:
Masculine vocative singular; masculine and neuter genitive singular; feminine accusative and dative singular; masculine nominative plural:
Etymology 1
editFrom Proto-Celtic *wīros.
Adjective
editfír
- true
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22b23
- Ci as·bera nech ro·pïa nem cía du·gneid na rétu sa, nípa fír.
- Even if anyone says you pl will have heaven although you do these things, it will not be true.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22b23
Inflection
edito/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | fír | fír | fír |
Vocative | fír | ||
Accusative | fír | fír | |
Genitive | fír | fíre | fír |
Dative | fír | fír | fír |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | fír | fíra | |
Vocative | fíru fíra† | ||
Accusative | fíru fíra† | ||
Genitive | fír | ||
Dative | fíraib | ||
Notes | † not when substantivized |
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom Proto-Celtic *wīrom.
Noun
editfír n
Inflection
editNeuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | fírN | fírN | fírL, fíra |
Vocative | fírN | fírN | fírL, fíra |
Accusative | fírN | fírN | fírL, fíra |
Genitive | fírL | fír | fírN |
Dative | fírL | fíraib | fíraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
|
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
fír | ḟír | fír pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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