féar

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See also: fear and fear-

Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

féar m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural féara)

  1. grass
  2. (slang) marijuana

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]

  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, 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, page 91

Further reading[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Noun[edit]

féar

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