féar

See also: fear and fear-

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fér (compare Scottish Gaelic feur), from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

féar m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural féara)

  1. grass
  2. (slang) marijuana

Declension

Declension of féar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative féar féara
vocative a fhéir a fhéara
genitive féir féar
dative féar féara
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an féar na féara
genitive an fhéir na bhféar
dative leis an bhféar
don fhéar 		leis na féara

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of féar
radical lenition eclipsis
féar fhéar bhféar

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 59, page 31
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 318, page 111

Further reading

Old Norse

Noun

féar

  1. inflection of fé:
    1. genitive singular
    2. definite genitive singular
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