ferr

See also: ferr-

Albanian

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin īnfernus.

ferr m (definite ferri)

Declension of ferr

ferr

From Proto-Celtic *werros, from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“peak”). Akin to Latin verrūca (“steep place, height”), Lithuanian viršùs (“top, head”) and Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ, “top, peak”).^[1] Alternatively, derived from Proto-Celtic *uɸer- (“over, on”) (a variant of *uɸor-), as in Gaulish *Werkingetorīx (literally “super-warrior-king”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér.^[2]

ferr

comparative degree of maith: better, best
- 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. 15^c23
  Hóre is cuci rigmi, is ferr dún placere illi.
  Since it is to him we will go, it is better for us to please him.

Mutation of *ferr*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ferr	ḟerr	ferr pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

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

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “Werro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
^ Kim McCone (1994) chapter II, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, section 20.3, page 125

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