Contionary:mes

Middle Annerish

Etymology

A suppletive paradigm consisting of three different roots:

• Present and conditional: from a merger of Goidelic ar·beir and for·beir, reanalysed after the common noun, itself from an unknown source; for similar development cf. Icelandic borða;

• Irrealis and imperative: from prefixed Proto-Germanic *wesaną, extended with deponent endings;

• 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:ᛓᛁᚭᛁᛧ)

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

Usage notes

A semantically transitive verb with intransitive morphology, which takes a direct object in the genitive after bıth:

• Roıd myr bıth gıogrann - We had barnacle stew.

As a particle itself, bıth cannot be modified by a possessive clitic and requires the emphatic form:

• Mí ım bírre bıth aíse - I am eating it (lit.: I'm in my eating ᴘᴀʀᴛ. hers).

Inflection

Inflection of mes

Ⅱ ᴍᴀsᴄ.	ɴᴏᴍ.	ɢᴇɴ.	ᴅᴀᴛ.	ᴠᴏᴄ.
sɢ.	bírr	bírrí	bírr(e)ʟ	bírreʟ
ᴘʟ.	bírríʟ	bírreɴ	bírrıb	bírreʟ
ᴄᴏʟ.	bírreʜ	bírr(e)ʟ