feur

Cornish

Adjective

feur

  1. Mixed mutation of meur.

Irish

Noun

feur m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural feura)

  1. Obsolete spelling of féar

Declension
Declension of feur

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feur fa
Vocative a fhéir a fheura
Genitive féir feur
Dative feur fa

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an feur na fa
Genitive an fhéir na bhfeur
Dative leis an bhfeur

don fheur

 leis na fa

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feur fheur bhfeur
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fér, from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfiəɾ/

Noun

feur m (genitive singular feòir)

  1. grass
  2. hay
  3. grassland, pasture, herbage

Derived terms

Verb

feur (past dh'fheur, future feuraidh, verbal noun feuradh, past participle feurte)

  1. (dated, transitive, intransitive) graze

Synonyms
  • feuraich

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
feurfheur
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “fér” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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