mebair

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• mebar, memor

Etymology

From Old Irish mebuir, from Latin memoria.

Noun

mebair f (genitive mebra)

1. recollection, memory

Descendants

• Irish: meabhair
• Scottish Gaelic: meomhair

Mutation

Mutation of mebair

radical	lenition	nasalization
mebair	mebair pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle 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), “mebair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language