daibhir

Irish

From Old Irish daidbir (“poor, indigent; feeble; a poor person”) (opposed to saidbir (“rich, wealthy”), modern saibhir).

daibhir (genitive singular masculine daibhir, genitive singular feminine daibhre, plural daibhre, comparative daibhre)

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

daibhir m (genitive singular daibhir, nominative plural daibhre)

Declension of daibhir (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an daibhir	na daibhre
genitive	an daibhir	na ndaibhre
dative	leis an daibhir don daibhir	leis na daibhre

Mutated forms of *daibhir*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
daibhir	dhaibhir	ndaibhir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “daibhir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “daidbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language