suib

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *subi.

Noun

suib n or f (genitive unattested, nominative plural subai)

1. strawberry

Inflection

Feminine i-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	suib	suibL	subaiH
vocative	suib	suibL	subaiH
accusative	suibN	suibL	subaiH
genitive	soboH, sobaH	soboH, sobaH	subaeN
dative	suibL	subaib	subaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: sub f
  • Irish: sú f (“red berry”)
  • Manx: soo
  • Scottish Gaelic: sùbh

Mutation

Mutation of suib

radical	lenition	nasalization
suib	ṡuib	unchanged

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), “sub”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language