tremibeir

Old Irish

Etymology

Calque of Latin trānsferō via tre- (“trans-”) +‎ beirid (“to bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʲɾʲe.β̃iˈbʲeɾʲ/

Verb

tremi·beir

1. to transfer

Inflection

Complex, class B I present

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.							tremi·berar
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.							trimi·rucad
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun
past participle
verbal of necessity

Quotations

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 8^a5

  Crúx didu ainm do gním in chrochtho acht tremi·berar di suidiu ↄid ainm dun chrunn.

  Crux, then, [is] a name for the act of crucifixion, but it is transferred from that, so that it is a name for the tree.

• 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. 2^b17

  Cenelae ciuil in-so ⁊ trimi·rucad di suidiu co n-eperr libro psalmorum

  This [was] a kind of musical instrument, and from this it [i.e. Latin psalterium (“lute”)] has been transferred and is given as a name to the Book of Psalms.

Mutation

Mutation of tremi·beir

radical	lenition	nasalization
tremi·beir	tremi·beir pronounced with /βʲ-/	tremi·mbeir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tremi-beir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language