feirm
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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *firmō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from *firhu- (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”).
Pronunciation
Noun
feirm f (genitive singular feirme, nominative plural feirmeacha)
Declension
Declension of feirm
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
feirm | fheirm | bhfeirm |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feirm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feirm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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