fiabhras

Irish

Etymology

From Old French fievre +‎ -as, from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old Irish daig (“flame”).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲiəvˠəɾˠəsˠ/[1]
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈfʲɛvˠɾˠəsˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲɪwɾˠəsˠ/, /ˈfʲiəwɾˠəsˠ/[2]

Noun

fiabhras m (genitive singular fiabhrais, nominative plural fiabhrais)

  1. fever

Declension

Declension of fiabhras (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fiabhras fiabhrais
vocative a fhiabhrais a fhiabhrasa
genitive fiabhrais fiabhras
dative fiabhras fiabhrais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fiabhras na fiabhrais
genitive an fhiabhrais na bhfiabhras
dative leis an bhfiabhras
don fhiabhras 		leis na fiabhrais

Derived terms

  • fiabhras aerach (“puerperal mania”)
  • fiabhras bainne (“milk fever”)
  • fiabhras ballach (“spotted fever, typhus”)
  • fiabhras buí (“yellow fever”)
  • fiabhras cnámh (“rheumatic fever”)
  • fiabhras coimhdeach(ta) (“puerperal fever”)
  • fiabhras creathach (“ague”)
  • fiabhras dearg (“scarlet fever”)
  • fiabhras dubh (“spotted fever, typhus”)
  • fiabhras faireoige (“glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis”)
  • fiabhras goile (“gastric fever”)
  • fiabhras inchinne (“brain fever”)
  • fiabhras léana (“hay fever”)
  • fiabhras seoil (“puerperal fever”)
  • fiabhrasach (“feverish”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fiabhras
radical lenition eclipsis
fiabhras fhiabhras bhfiabhras

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 227, page 115
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 48, page 22

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old French fievre +‎ -as, from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old Irish daig (“flame”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfiəvɾəs̪/
  • Hyphenation: fia‧bhras

Noun

fiabhras m (genitive singular fiabhrais, plural fiabhrasan)

  1. (pathology) fever

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of fiabhras
radical lenition
fiabhras fhiabhras

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

Further reading

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