Contionary:mes
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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)
- (countable) A table for eating
- (+ 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 | ||