beirigh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • bearbh, beirbh
  • beirbhigh (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish beirbigid,[2] suffixed form of Old Irish berbaid,[3] from Proto-Celtic *berwāti, denominal verb from *berwos (stew), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (to boil).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛɾʲɪɟ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛɾʲiː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈbʲɛɾʲi/

Verb

beirigh (present analytic beiríonn, future analytic beireoidh, verbal noun beiriú, past participle beirithe)

  1. (ambitransitive, cooking) boil; cook by boiling
    Synonym: bruith
  2. (ambitransitive, cooking) bake
    Synonym: bruith

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • beirithe (touchy; precocious; old-fashioned)

Mutation

Mutated forms of beirigh
radical lenition eclipsis
beirigh bheirigh mbeirigh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ beirigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “beirbigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “berbaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading