feur

feur

Cornish

Adjective

feur

  1. mixed mutation of meur

Mutation

Mutation of meur
radical soft aspirate hard mixed
meur veur unchanged unchanged feur,
veur*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

French

Pronunciation

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Interjection

feur

  1. (chiefly Internet, humorous) a humorous response to the word quoi (what) or pourquoi (why), as "quoi feur" sounds identical to the word coiffeur (hairdresser).

Irish

Noun

feur m (genitive singular féir, nominative plural feura)

  1. obsolete spelling of féar (“grass”)

Declension

Declension of feur (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feur feura
vocative a fhéir a fheura
genitive féir feur
dative feur feura
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an feur na feura
genitive an fhéir na bhfeur
dative leis an bhfeur
don fheur 		leis na feura

Mutation

Mutated forms of feur
radical lenition eclipsis
feur fheur bhfeur

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fér, from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”).[1]

Pronunciation

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, ambitransitive) graze
    Synonym: feuraich

Mutation

Mutation of feur
radical lenition
feur fheur

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
  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
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, pages 87, 177
  4. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 47
  5. ^ Holmer, Nils M. (1938), Studies on Argyllshire Gaelic, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-A.-B., page 167

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “feur”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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