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muir

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English

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Noun

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muir (plural muirs)

  1. (especially Scotland, Northern England) A moor.
    • 1851, George Ross, Leading Cases in the Law of Scotland, page 446:
      [] Mr. Cuming brought a declarator of common property in, and division of, the muirs in question. Pleaded for the Pursuer.—The pursuer's special infestment in the muirs as parts of the barony of Coxtoun excluded the defender, []
    • 1852, Thomas Doubleday, The Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs, page 96:
      [] and Coquet's streams are glittrin, as they rin frae muir to main []
    • 1896, Anthony Whitehead, Legends of Westmorland and Other Poems: With Notes, page 24:
      Tho' four lang miles was he fra heayme, / Besides a muir to cross, / By haunted cairns an boggle steaynes, []

Irish

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Etymology

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PIE word
*móri

From Old Irish muir,[1] from Proto-Celtic *mori (compare Welsh môr), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (compare Latin mare, English mere, German Meer, Dutch meer).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muir f (genitive singular mara, nominative plural mara)

  1. sea
    Synonym: farraige
    Ní fhanann muir le fear sotail. (proverb)
    Time and tide wait for no man.
    (literally, “The sea doesn’t wait for an arrogant man.”)
  2. (astronomy) mare

Declension

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Declension of muir (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative muir mara
vocative a mhuir a mhara
genitive mara mara
dative muir mara
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an mhuir na mara
genitive na mara na mara
dative leis an muir
don mhuir
leis na mara

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of muir
radical lenition eclipsis
muir mhuir not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 136, page 71
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 110, page 44

Further reading

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Manx

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Noun

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muir f (genitive singular marrey, plural muiraghyn)

  1. Alternative form of mooir

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
muir vuir unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *mori.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muir n (genitive moro or mora, nominative plural muire)

  1. sea
    • 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. 81a4
      inna fudumnai in moro
      the depths of the sea
    • 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. 126a4
      arna té .i. féith forsna muire
      so that it may not go, i.e. a calm over the seas
    • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, June 21; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
      Ainle sochla slúagach, fris mbrúchta muir mílach,
      Ainle the famous and hostful, against whom the animal-filled sea bursts forth,

Inflection

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Neuter i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative muirN muirN muireL
Vocative muirN muirN muireL
Accusative muirN muirN muireL
Genitive moroH, moraH moroH, moraH muireN
Dative muirL muirib muirib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: muir

Mutation

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Mutation of muir
radical lenition nasalization
muir
also mmuir after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
muir
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mori-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 277

Further reading

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Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English more, from Old English mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [møːr], [myːr], [meːr], [miːr], [mjuːr]

Noun

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muir (plural muirs)

  1. moor
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      This man, so gallant and braw, would never be for her; doubtless the fine suit and the capering horse were for Joan o' the Croft's pleasure. And he, in turn, when he remarked her wan cheeks and dowie eyes, had mind to what the dark man said on the muir, and saw in her a maid sworn to no mortal love.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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PIE word
*móri

From Old Irish muir,[1] from Proto-Celtic *mori (compare Welsh môr), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (compare Latin mare, English mere, German Meer, Dutch meer).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muir m or f (genitive singular mara, plural marannan)

  1. sea, ocean
    Lean mi thar na mara thu.I followed thee over the sea.
    air muir 's air tìrby sea and by land
  2. wave
  3. pl large billows
  4. f worry, discomposure, mental suffering
    Nach ann air a tha a' mhuir an diugh!How troubled he is today!
    Tha muir ort an diugh, a Dhòmhnaill.You are in the dolours today, Donald.

Usage notes

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  • The nominative can be either masculine or feminine, the genitive is usually feminine.
  • muir and cuan are common words for sea and ocean respectively. fairge, on the other hand, is a poetic term that implies the rough sea.

Declension

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Declension of muir (type IVa feminine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative muir marannan
genitive mara mharannan
dative muir marannan; muiribh
definite
singular plural
nominative (a') mhuir (na) marannan
genitive (na) mara (nam) marannan
dative (a') mhuir (na) marannan; muiribh
vocative mhuir mhara; mharannan

obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of muir
radical lenition
muir mhuir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “muir”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN