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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish beóir, from Old Norse bjórr.
Noun
beoir f (genitive singular beorach, nominative plural beoracha)
- beer
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
beoir
- (dialectal) second-person singular present indicative of beoigh (“animate”)
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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beoir
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bheoir
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mbeoir
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “beóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 73
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “beoir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “beoir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024