muirear
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish muirer, mairer.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]muirear m (genitive singular muirir, nominative plural muirir)
- charge, burden
- a family that one must provide for; dependents
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
- D’fhág sé a thigh is a áit agus a chuid saidhbhris ag Máire, mar ní raibh aoinne eile muirir air.
- He left his house and holding and his wealth to Mary, because he had no other dependents.
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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muirear | mhuirear | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muirer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “muirear”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 501
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “muirear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “muirear”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “muirear”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024