feib

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸʲeβʲ]

Noun

feib

  1. inflection of feb:
    1. accusative/dative singular
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual

Conjunction

feib (followed by nasalizing relative clause)

  1. as, just as

Quotations

  • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 144b3
    Feib fond·úair-som la auctoru, is samlid da·árbuid.
    As he has found it in authors, so he has showed it.

Descendants

  • Irish: feibh

Mutation

Mutation of feib
radical lenition nasalization
feib ḟeib feib
pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

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

Further reading

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