feur

Cornish

Adjective

feur

  1. Mixed mutation of meur.

Mutation
  Mutation of feur  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehardmixedmixed after 'th
meur veur unchanged unchanged feur veur

French

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:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feur feura
Vocative a fhéir a fheura
Genitive féir feur
Dative feur feura

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an feur na feura
Genitive an fhéir na bhfeur
Dative leis an bhfeur

don fheur

 leis na feura

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feur fheur bhfeur
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fér, from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfiəɾ/

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, transitive, intransitive) graze
    Synonym: feuraich

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
feurfheur
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “feur”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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