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féar

See also: fear and fear-

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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féar m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural féara)

  1. grass
  2. (slang) marijuana

Declension

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Declension of féar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative féar féara
vocative a fhéir a fhéara
genitive féir féar
dative féar féara
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an féar na féara
genitive an fhéir na bhféar
dative leis an bhféar
don fhéar 		leis na féara

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of féar
radical lenition eclipsis
féar fhéar bhféar

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. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 59, page 31
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 318, page 111

Further reading

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Old Norse

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Noun

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féar

  1. inflection of fé:
    1. genitive singular
    2. definite genitive singular
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