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Middle Annerish

Etymology

A suppletive paradigm consisting of three different roots:

  • Present and conditional: a merger of ar·beir and for·beir borrowed from Goidelic with conjunct reanalysed after the common noun, itself from an unknown source;

   for similar development cf. Icelandic borða;

  • Past: from the sparcely attested Old Annerish ⟨ro·fóed⟩, ⟨ros·foéḋ⟩ (with infixed pronoun -s-), seemingly from *edaną, though cf.: possibly original ⟨ro·foír⟩ from *fra-wēzi-.

Pronunciation

(Annerish) IPA: /biːr͈ʲ/ [biˑɘ̯ɹ]

Verb/ Noun

bírr (runic:ᛓᛁᚱ)

  1. (countable) A table for eating
  2. (+bıth) To eat, consume as food

Usage notes

The non-present has intransitive morphology and takes a direct object in a genitive construct with bıth:

  • Annt urar myr bıth ın gıogrann! - Can we have the barnacle stew, please! / Roıd í a bıth. - She ate it. (lit.: Ate she his ᴘᴀʀᴛ.)

vs. No bírr sae gıogran bıth? - Didn't he eat barnacle stew? / Tó mé ot bírre bıth. - I'm eating it. (lit.: Am I at her eating ᴘᴀʀᴛ.)

See also

Inflection

Ⅱ Masc. Singular Plural Collective  Irregular 
 Active 
 Narrative   Irregular 
 Stative 
 Irrealis   Conditional   Preterite 
Common  bírr   bírreʟ  bírrí  ᴀʙs.: ar beıre, 
ar beırıd* 
Genitive  bírrí   bírre(n)ɴ  bírreʟ ɪɴᴅᴇᴘ.  urar, 
 urarth* 
 roıbbır, 
 roıbbırth* 
 roıd
Dative  bírreʟ  bírrıb   bírrıb  ᴄᴏɴᴊ.: bírr
Vocative  bírreʟ  bírreʟ  bírreʟ  Imperative:  fua, fuaıbᴘʟ *2nd ᴘ. & 3rd ᴘ.sɢ. form, **1st ᴘ.sɢ. & ɪɴᴄʟ. form.