féar

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See also: fear and fear-

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fér (compare Scottish Gaelic feur), from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

féar m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural féara)

  1. grass
  2. (slang) marijuana

Declension

Declension of féar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative féar féara
Vocative a fhéir a fhéara
Genitive féir féar
Dative féar féara

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an féar na féara
Genitive an fhéir na bhféar
Dative leis an bhféar

don fhéar

leis na féara

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féar fhéar bhféar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 59, page 31
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 318, page 111

Further reading

Old Norse

Noun

féar

  1. inflection of fé:
    1. genitive singular
    2. definite genitive singular
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