Contionary:mes
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;
- Imperative and Irrealis: from 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:ᛓᛁᚱ)
- A table for eating.
- (+bıth) To eat, consume as food.
Usage notes
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 fuarth at bıth! - Don't eat it! (lit.: Don't eat her bıth.)
- Mí ım bírre bıth baırgeàın. - 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.)
Inflection
Ⅱ ᴍᴀsᴄ. | ɴᴏᴍ. | ɢᴇɴ. | ᴅᴀᴛ. | ᴠᴏᴄ. |
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sɢ. | bírr | bírrí | bírr(e)ʟ | bírreʟ |
ᴘʟ. | bírreʟ | bírreɴ | bírrıb | bírreʟ |
ᴄᴏʟ. | bírreʜ | bírr(e)ʟ | ||
' | ᴘʀᴇᴛ. | ɴᴀʀ. | ɪʀʀ. | ᴄᴏɴᴅ. |
sᴛᴀᴛ. | roıd | bírrer | fuar | roıbbır |
ɪᴍᴘ.: fuasɢ, fuaıbᴘʟ | Foll.d by cop.ve pnn. |
See also
- aırbeda (causative)