muirear

Irish

FWOTD – 13 September 2022

Etymology

From Middle Irish muirer, mairer.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmˠɪɾʲəɾˠ/

Noun

muirear m (genitive singular muirir, nominative plural muirir)

  1. charge, burden
  2. a family that one must provide for; dependents
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      D’fhág sé a thigh is a áit agus a chuid saidhbhris ag Máire, mar ní raibh aoinne eile muirir air.
      He left his house and holding and his wealth to Mary, because he had no other dependents.

Declension

Declension of muirear (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative muirear muirir
vocative a mhuirir a mhuireara
genitive muirir muirear
dative muirear muirir
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an muirear na muirir
genitive an mhuirir na muirear
dative leis an muirear
don mhuirear 		leis na muirir

Mutation

Mutated forms of muirear
radical lenition eclipsis
muirear mhuirear not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muirer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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