tremibeir

Old Irish

Etymology

Calque of Latin trānsferō via tre- (“trans-”) +‎ beirid (“to bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʲrʲeṽʲiˈbʲerʲ]

Verb

tremi·beir

1. to transfer
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 8^a5

     Crúx didu ainm do gním in chrochtho acht tremi·berar di suidiu ↄid ainm dun chrunn.

     Crux, then, [is] a name for the act of crucifixion, but it is transferred from that, so that it is a name for the tree.

   • 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. 2^b17

     Cenelae ciuil in-so ⁊ trimi·rucad di suidiu co n-eperr libro psalmorum

     This [was] a kind of musical instrument, and from this it [i.e. Latin psalterium (“lute”)] has been transferred and is given as a name to the Book of Psalms.

Inflection

Complex, class B I present

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.							tremi·berar
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.							trimi·rucad
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Further reading

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