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;

• 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 urarth bıth ın gıogrann! - Please, have some barnacle stew! / Roıd mí a bıth. - I ate it. (lit.: Eaten I=am his ᴘᴀʀᴛ.)
  

 vs. No bírr sae gıogran bıth? - Didn't he use to eat barnacle stew? / Tó mé ot bírre bıth. - I'm eating it. (lit.: Am I at her eating ᴘᴀʀᴛ.)

See also

• aırbeda (causative)

Inflection

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
'	ᴘʀᴇᴛ.	ɴᴀʀ.	ɪʀʀ.	ᴄᴏɴᴅ.
sᴛᴀᴛ.	roıd	bírrer	urar	roıbbır
ɪᴍᴘ.: fuasɢ, fuaıᴘʟ			Foll.d by cop.ve pnn.