Contionary:mes

Middle Annerish

Etymology

A suppletive paradigm consisting of three different roots:

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

• From Proto-Germanic *wesaną: the bare Imperative and prefixed Irrealis 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:ᛓᛁᚱ)

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

Ⅱ Masc.	Singular	Plural	Collective	Irregular		Narrative	Irrealis	Conditional	Preterite
Common	bírr	bírreʟ	bírrí	Stative	ɪɴᴅᴇᴘ.	ᴀʙs.: beırre, beırrıd* ᴄᴏɴᴊ.: beırr	urar, urarth*	roıbbır, roıbbırth*	roıd
Genitive	bírrí	bírre(n)ɴ	bírreʟ	Imperative:  fuasɢ, fuaıbᴘʟ			*2nd ᴘ. & 3rd ᴘ.sɢ. form, **1st ᴘ.sɢ. & ɪɴᴄʟ. form.
Dative	bírreʟ	bírrıb	bírrıb	Causative	ᴀʙs.	ar bíoda, ar bíodaıd*	ar béıde, ar béıdıd*	aırbıdım**, aırbıded*, aırbıdıs	ar bíodas, ar bíodaıs*
Vocative	bírreʟ	bírreʟ	bírreʟ		ᴄᴏɴᴊ.	aırbed	aırbıd		aırbedas