muirear

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish muirer, mairer.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muirear m (genitive singular muirir, nominative plural muirir)

  1. charge, burden
  2. a family that one must provide for; dependents
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      D’fhág sé a thigh is a áit agus a chuid saidhbhris ag Máire, mar ní raibh aoinne eile muirir air.
      He left his house and holding and his wealth to Mary, because he had no other dependents.

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
muirear mhuirear not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Further reading

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