fiurt

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin virtus.

Noun

fiurt m (genitive ferto, nominative plural ferte)

  1. miracle
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112d8
      .i. cia du·gnetar fertai fiadaib.
      i.e. although miracles be wrought before them.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
singular dual plural
nominative fiurt fiurtL fertaeH, fertaiH
vocative fiurt fiurtL firtu
accusative fiurtN fiurtL firtu
genitive fertoH, fertaH fertoL, fertaL fertaeN
dative fiurtL fertaib fertaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: firt

Mutation

Mutation of fiurt
radical lenition nasalization
fiurt ḟiurt fiurt
pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

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

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