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feraid

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Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish feraid, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (to heed).[1]

Verb

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feraid (conjunct ·fera, verbal noun ferthain)

  1. to grant
  2. to supply, to provide
    • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
      Ro·ferad failte friu uile, ocus ructha chuci-sium isin mbruidin.
      They were all made welcome and brought to him in the hall.
      (literally, “A welcome was provided to them all…”)

Inflection

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  • Passive singular perfect deuterotonic: ro·ferad

Descendants

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  • Irish: fear (to grant)

Mutation

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Mutation of feraid
radical lenition nasalization
feraid ḟeraid feraid
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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

References

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  1. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 517–18

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *werāti. Perhaps from a root Proto-Indo-European *wer- (to turn) related to *h₂werg-, *werp-, and *wert-. For the semantic development compare the development of Latin versō (to turn) to French verser (to pour).[1]

Pedersen instead connects it a different Proto-Indo-European *wer- (to heed), compare with German gewähren (to grant, allow).[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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feraid (conjunct ·fera)

  1. to grant
    Synonyms: do·indnaig, ernaid
  2. to supply, to provide
    ferais fáilte friswelcomed him (literally, “provided a welcome to him”)
  3. to pour, to shower, to shed (precipitation)
    Synonym: do·fortai

Inflection

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Derived terms

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  • adbar (matter, material)

Descendants

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Mutation

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Mutation of feraid
radical lenition nasalization
feraid ḟeraid feraid
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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

References

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  1. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) “fer-a- ‘shed, pour, give forth’”, in Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 4.2.2., page 434ff.
  2. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 517–18

Further reading

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