feirm

Irish

Alternative forms

• feilm (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

From Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *firmō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from *firhu- (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʲɛɾʲəmʲ]

Noun

feirm f (genitive singular feirme, nominative plural feirmeacha)

1. farm

Declension

Declension of feirm

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative feirm feirmeacha Vocative a fheirm a fheirmeacha Genitive feirme feirmeacha Dative feirm feirmeacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fheirm na feirmeacha Genitive na feirme na bhfeirmeacha Dative leis an bhfeirm don fheirm leis na feirmeacha

Derived terms

• buachaill feirme (“farm-hand”)
• feirmeoir (“farmer”)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feirm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feirm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language