asbeir

From ess- +‎ beirid. The same construction as Latin efferō, which can mean (among other things) “proclaim, declare”, and Ancient Greek ἐκφέρω (ekphérō), which can mean “disclose”.

• IPA^(key): [asˈbʲerʲ]

as·beir (prototonic ·epir, verbal noun epert)

1. to say, utter [with fri ‘to’]
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^c13

     Ní érbarid autem uerba as·beir in tóis anfoirbthe.

     Moreover, you pl should not utter words which the imperfect folk utters.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 26^b19

     At·beirmis frib.

     We used to say it to you pl.

   • c. 850, Carlsruhe Glosses on St Augustine’s Soliloquia, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. 2, pp. 1–9, Acr. 14^a2

     Bés as·bera-su as n‑ai⟨n⟩m dosom animus ci at·bela.

     Maybe you would say that animus is its name though it may die.

2. to mention
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28^a20

     As·bertar a n-anman arna gaba nech desimrecht diib.

     Their names are mentioned that no one may take example from them.

3. to speak (a language)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^d6

     ar ní tucci a mbéelre as·biur

     for he does not understand the language I speak

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:asbeir.

The present and imperfect indicative ro-forms as·robair, as·robarad mean “can say, could say”.

• ráidid

• as·beir do
• remi·epir

• Middle Irish: at·beir
  • Irish: abair
  • Manx: abbyr
  • Scottish Gaelic: abair

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External:

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “as-beir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 466