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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
feib
- inflection of feb:
- accusative/dative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual
Conjunction
feib (followed by nasalizing relative clause)
- as, just as
Quotations
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 144b3
Feib fond·úair-som la auctoru, is samlid da·árbuid.- As he has found it in authors, so he has showed it.
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of feib
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
|
| feib
|
ḟeib
|
feib
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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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), “feb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 498, page 316; reprinted 2017