airber

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸareborā, a collective derived from the plural of *ɸare- +‎ *bor- (“to bear”) +‎ *-om (verbal noun suffix).

Noun

airber f

1. bundle, armful

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	airberL	airbirL	airberaH
vocative	airberL	airbirL	airberaH
accusative	airbirN	airbirL	airberaH
genitive	airbireH	airberL	airberN
dative	airbirL	airberaib	airberaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of airber

radical	lenition	nasalization
airber (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	airber	n-airber

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airber”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language