feur
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Irish
Declension
Declension of feur
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish fér, from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfiəɾ/
Derived terms
- feur-itheach (“herbivorous”, adjective)
- fiabhras-feòir
Verb
feur (past dh'fheur, future feuraidh, verbal noun feuradh, past participle feurte)
- (dated, transitive, intransitive) graze
- Synonym: feuraich
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
feur | fheur |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “feur”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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