Contionary:mes

Middle Annerish

Etymology

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 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.

Pronunciation

(Annerish) IPA: /bʲiːr͈ʲ/ [b̥iˑɘ̯ɹ]

Inflection of mes

Ⅱ ᴍᴀsᴄ.	ɴᴏᴍ.	ɢᴇɴ.	ᴅᴀᴛ.	ᴠᴏᴄ.
sɢ.	bírr	bírrí	bírr(e)ʟ	bírreʟ
ᴘʟ.	bírreʟ	bírreɴ	bírrıb	bírreʟ
ᴄᴏʟ.	bírreʜ	bírr(e)ʟ
Ⅰ	ᴘʀᴇᴛ.	ɴᴀʀ.	ɪʀʀ.	ᴄᴏɴᴅ.
sᴛᴀᴛ.	roıd	bírr	fuar	roıbbır
ɪᴍᴘ.: fuasɢ, fuaıbᴘʟ			Foll.d by cop.ve pnn.

Verb / Noun

bírr (runic:ᛓᛁᚱ)

1. A table for eating.
2. To eat, consume as food.

ɴ.ʙ.

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

See also

• aırbeda (causative)