beirt

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Irish

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Irish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal:
    Ordinal: dara, dóú
    Personal: beirt, dís
    Attributive: dhá

Etymology

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From Middle Irish beirt (pair, two (people)), from bert (burden, load; bundle).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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beirt f (genitive singular beirte, nominative plural beirteanna) (triggers lenition (except of d, s, and t))

  1. (a group of) two, a pair
    1. (of persons)
      beirt deartháireacha agam.
      I have two brothers.
      Bhí filíocht ag an mbeirt.
      The two composed poetry.
      • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 48:
        ə rug tøsə klȧn̄ riəv? rugəs, rug mḗ šešŕ̥, tā ḱǡŕ ȷīb agm̥, agəs kȧĺū bøŕc.
        [An rug tusa clann riamh? Rugas, rug mé seisear, tá ceathrar díobh agam, agus cailleadh beirt.]
        Did you ever have children? Yes, I had six, I have four [still] and two died.
    2. (of things, without dependent noun)
      beirt de chaoirigh bhána sa ghort.
      There are a pair of white sheep in the field.

Usage notes

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  • Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings and the preposition de when referring to other things. With pronouns, either de or ag may be used:
    Bhí an bheirt againn ann.Both of us were there.
    Fuair beirt díobh bás ina naíonáin.Two of them died in infancy.

Declension

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Declension of beirt (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative beirt beirteanna
vocative a bheirt a bheirteanna
genitive beirte beirteanna
dative beirt beirteanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bheirt na beirteanna
genitive na beirte na mbeirteanna
dative leis an mbeirt
don bheirt
leis na beirteanna

See also

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of beirt
radical lenition eclipsis
beirt bheirt mbeirt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 beirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 107, page 58
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 48
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 102, page 40

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Noun

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beirt f sg

  1. genitive singular of beart

Mutation

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Mutation of beirt
radical lenition
beirt bheirt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.