beirt

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: beírt

Irish

[edit]
Irish numbers (edit)
 ←  1 2 3  → 
    Cardinal:
    Ordinal: dara, dóú
    Personal: beirt, dís
    Attributive: dhá

Etymology

[edit]

From Middle Irish beirt (pair, two (people)), from bert (burden, load; bundle).[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

beirt f (genitive singular beirte, nominative plural beirteanna) (triggers lenition (except of d, s, and t))

  1. (a group of) two, a pair
    1. (of persons)
      beirt deartháireacha agam.
      I have two brothers.
      Bhí filíocht ag an mbeirt.
      The two composed poetry.
      • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 48:
        ə rug tøsə klȧn̄ riəv? rugəs, rug mḗ šešŕ̥, tā ḱǡŕ ȷīb agm̥, agəs kȧĺū bøŕc.
        [An rug tusa clann riamh? Rugas, rug mé seisear, tá ceathrar díobh agam, agus cailleadh beirt.]
        Did you ever have children? Yes, I had six, I have four [still] and two died.
    2. (of things, without dependent noun)
      beirt de chaoirigh bhána sa ghort.
      There are a pair of white sheep in the field.

Usage notes

[edit]
  • Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings and the preposition de when referring to other things. With pronouns, either de or ag may be used:
    Bhí an bheirt againn ann.Both of us were there.
    Fuair beirt díobh bás ina naíonáin.Two of them died in infancy.

Declension

[edit]

See also

[edit]

Mutation

[edit]
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
beirt bheirt mbeirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 beirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 107, page 58
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 48
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 102, page 40

Further reading

[edit]

Scottish Gaelic

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

beirt f sg

  1. genitive singular of beart

Mutation

[edit]
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
beirt bheirt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.