blúire

Irish

Alternative forms

  • brúile, brúille, brúire, búire, spriúille[1], sprúille

Etymology

Dissimilation of brúire, from Middle Irish brúar (“crumbs, bits”),[2] from the root of Old Irish bruïd (“to break in pieces”),[3] from Proto-Celtic *bruseti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”).

Pronunciation

Noun

blúire m (genitive singular blúire, nominative plural blúirí)

  1. fragment, morsel, scrap, bit, crumb (small amount)
  2. parcel (of land)

Usage notes

Can be used in understatement to mean simply some, not necessarily actually a small amount. For example, D’ith mé blúire aráin means literally “I ate a bit/morsel of bread”, but can mean more generally “I ate some bread”.

Declension

Declension of blúire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative blúire blúirí
vocative a bhlúire a bhlúirí
genitive blúire blúirí
dative blúire blúirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an blúire na blúirí
genitive an bhlúire na mblúirí
dative leis an mblúire
don bhlúire 		leis na blúirí

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • blúirín (diminutive)
  • bruan
  • bruar
  • brúigh
  • brúireach
  • spruadar
  • spruar
  • sprúdar
  • sprúileach
  • sprúilleach
  • sprúireach

Mutation

Mutated forms of blúire
radical lenition eclipsis
blúire bhlúire mblúire

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

References

  1. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 625, page 114
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bruar or dil.ie/7054”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bruïd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 8, page 14

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