Muir Robur
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From muir (“sea”) + a form of Latin ruber (“red”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (nominative, accusative, or vocative singular): IPA(key): [ˈmurʲ ˈr͈oβur]
- (dative singular): IPA(key): [ˈmurʲ ˈroβur]
Proper noun
[edit]Muir Robur n (genitive Moro Robuir)
- Red Sea (a sea between Africa and Arabia)
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 96c1
- Du·fuargabsat huisci Moro Robuir intan ro·mboi popul Dǽ for a muir.
- The waters of the Red Sea rose when God's people were on the seashore.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 96c1
Inflection
[edit]Neuter i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | Muir RoburN | — | — |
Vocative | Muir RoburN | — | — |
Accusative | Muir RoburN | — | — |
Genitive | Moro RobuirL | — | — |
Dative | Muir RoburL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]- Middle Irish: Muir Romair, Muir Romor
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
Muir Robur also Mmuir Robur after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
Muir Robur pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “robur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language