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A suppletive paradigm consisting of three different roots:

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-;

Imperative and Irrealis: from Proto-Germanic *wesaną, extended with deponent endings;

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

for similar development cf. Icelandic borða.

(Annerish) IPA: /biːr͈ʲ/ [b̥iˑɘ̯ɹ]

bírr (runic:ᛓᛁᚱ)

This is one of a handful of verbs with intransitive morphology and transitive meaning that take a direct object in a genitive construct with bıth:

Ná fuar at bıth! - Don't eat it! (lit.: Don't eat her bıth.)
Mí ım bírre bıth baırgín. - I'm eating a piece of bread. (lit.: I'm in=my eating bıth of=a=bread-piece.)
Roıd síb bıth ın gıogrann. - You ate the the barnacle stew. (lit.: Eaten you're.ᴘʟ bıth of=the barnacle-stew.)

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 This is one of a handful of verbs with intransitive morphology and transitive meaning that take a direct object in a genitive construct with ''{{cd|bıth}}'':
 * ''Ná '''fuar''' at bıth!'' - Don't eat it! <small>(''lit.'': Don't eat her ''bıth''.)</small>
-* ''Mí ım '''bírre''' bıth baırgeàın.'' - I'm eating a piece of bread. <small>(''lit.'': I'm in=my eating ''bıth'' of=a=bread-piece.)</small>
+* ''Mí ım '''bírre''' bıth baırgín.'' - I'm eating a piece of bread. <small>(''lit.'': I'm in=my eating ''bıth'' of=a=bread-piece.)</small>
 * '''''Roıd''' síb bıth ın gıogrann.'' - You ate the the barnacle stew. <small>(''lit.'': Eaten you're.ᴘʟ ''bıth'' of=the barnacle-stew.)</small>