daibhir
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish daidbir (“poor, indigent; feeble; a poor person”) (opposed to saidbir (“rich, wealthy”), modern saibhir).
Adjective
[edit]daibhir (genitive singular masculine daibhir, genitive singular feminine daibhre, plural daibhre, comparative daibhre)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | daibhir | dhaibhir | daibhre; dhaibhre2 | |
vocative | dhaibhir | daibhre | ||
genitive | daibhre | daibhre | daibhir | |
dative | daibhir; dhaibhir1 |
dhaibhir; dhaibhir (archaic) |
daibhre; dhaibhre2 | |
Comparative | níos daibhre | |||
Superlative | is daibhre |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Synonyms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]daibhir m (genitive singular daibhir, nominative plural daibhre)
- poor person
Declension
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[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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daibhir | dhaibhir | ndaibhir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “daibhir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “daidbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language