mebair

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

mebar, memor

Etymology

From Old Irish mebuir, from Latin memoria.

Noun

mebair f (genitive mebra)

recollection, memory

Descendants

Irish: meabhair
Scottish Gaelic: meomhair

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mebair	mebair pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mebair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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