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

The non-present has intransitive morphology and takes a direct object in a genitive construct with bıth:

• Annt urar myr bıth ın gıogrann! - Can we have the barnacle stew, please! / Roıd í at bıth. - She ate it. (lit.: Ate she her ᴘᴀʀᴛ.)
  

 vs. Tá myr gat bírre bıth. - We are eating it. (lit.: We are at her eating ᴘᴀʀᴛ.)

See also

• aırbeda (causative)

Inflection

Ⅱ Masc.	Singular	Plural	Collective	Irregular   Active	Narrative		Irregular   Stative	Irrealis	Conditional	Preterite
Common	bírr	bírreʟ	bírrí		ᴀʙs.:	ar beıre,   ar beırıd*		urar,   urarth*	roıbbır,   roıbbırth*	roıd
Genitive	bírrí	bírre(n)ɴ	bírreʟ				ɪɴᴅᴇᴘ.
Dative	bírreʟ	bírrıb	bírrıb		ᴄᴏɴᴊ.:	bírr
Vocative	bírreʟ	bírreʟ	bírreʟ	Imperative:  fuasɢ, fuaıbᴘʟ			*2nd ᴘ. & 3rd ᴘ.sɢ. form, **1st ᴘ.sɢ. & ɪɴᴄʟ. form.