fairrge

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Irish

Noun

fairrge f (genitive singular fairrge, nominative plural fairrgidhe or fairrgeadha)

  1. Superseded spelling of farraige.

Declension

Declension of fairrge

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fairrge fairrgí
Vocative a fhairrge a fhairrgí
Genitive fairrge fairrgí
Dative fairrge fairrgí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhairrge na fairrgí
Genitive na fairrge na bhfairrgí
Dative leis an bhfairrge

don fhairrge

leis na fairrgí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fairrge fhairrge bhfairrge
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from the root of fairsiung (“ample, broad”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

fairrge f (genitive fairrge, nominative plural fairrgi)

  1. sea, ocean

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fairrgeL fairrgiL fairrgi
Vocative fairrgeL fairrgiL fairrgi
Accusative fairrgiN fairrgiL fairrgi
Genitive fairrge fairrgeL fairrgeN
Dative fairrgiL fairrgib fairrgib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: farraige
  • Manx: faarkey
  • Scottish Gaelic: fairge

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fairrge ḟairrge fairrge
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1917) “Zur irischen Grammatik und Literatur”, in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, volume 11, page 312

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