fíor
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish fír (“true”),[4] from Proto-Celtic *wīros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros. Cognate with Latin vērus and German wahr.
Adjective
[edit]fíor (genitive singular masculine fír, genitive singular feminine fíre, plural fíora, comparative fíre)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | fíor | fhíor | fíora; fhíora2 | |
vocative | fhír | fíora | ||
genitive | fíre | fíora | fíor | |
dative | fíor; fhíor1 |
fhíor; fhír (archaic) |
fíora; fhíora2 | |
Comparative | níos fíre | |||
Superlative | is fíre |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]fíor f (genitive singular fíre, nominative plural fíora)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]fíor (present analytic fíorann, future analytic fíorfaidh, verbal noun fíoradh, past participle fíortha)
- (transitive) Alternative form of fíoraigh (“verify”)
Conjugation
[edit]* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fíor”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fíor”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 316
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Irish figor, borrowed from Latin figūra.[5] Doublet of figiúr.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]fíor f (genitive singular fíorach, nominative plural fíoracha)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]fíor (present analytic fíorann, future analytic fíorfaidh, verbal noun fíoradh, past participle fíortha)
- (transitive) Alternative form of fíoraigh (“figure, outline; prefigure, symbolize; portend”)
Conjugation
[edit]* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fíor”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fíoġair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 315
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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fíor | fhíor | bhfíor |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 57, page 30
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 112
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 165, page 62
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 figa(i)r, fiugair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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