fiurt

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin virtus.

Noun

fiurt m (genitive ferto, nominative plural ferte)

1. miracle
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112^d8

     .i. cia du·gnetar fertai fiadaib.

     i.e. although miracles be wrought before them.

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fiurt	fiurtL	fertaeH, fertaiH
Vocative	fiurt	fiurtL	firtu
Accusative	fiurtN	fiurtL	firtu
Genitive	fertoH, fertaH	fertoL, fertaL	fertaeN
Dative	fiurtL	fertaib	fertaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: firt

Mutation

Mutation of fiurt

radical	lenition	nasalization
fiurt	ḟiurt	fiurt 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.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fiurt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language