fiabhras

Irish

Etymology

From Old French fievre + -as, from Latin febris (a fever), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (to burn). Cognate with Old Irish daig (flame).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲiəvˠɾˠəsˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲɪwɾˠəsˠ/, /ˈfʲiəwɾˠəsˠ/[1]

Noun

fiabhras m (genitive singular fiabhrais, nominative plural fiabhrais)

  1. fever

Declension

Derived terms

  • fiabhras aerach (puerperal mania)
  • fiabhras bainne (milk fever)
  • fiabhras ballach (spotted fever, typhus)
  • fiabhras buí (yellow fever)
  • fiabhras cnámh (rheumatic fever)
  • fiabhras coimhdeach(ta) (puerperal fever)
  • fiabhras creathach (ague)
  • fiabhras dearg (scarlet fever)
  • fiabhras dubh (spotted fever, typhus)
  • fiabhras faireoige (glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis)
  • fiabhras goile (gastric fever)
  • fiabhras inchinne (brain fever)
  • fiabhras léana (hay fever)
  • fiabhras seoil (puerperal fever)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiabhras fhiabhras bhfiabhras
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 22

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old French fievre + -as, from Latin febris (a fever), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (to burn). Cognate with Old Irish daig (flame).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: fia‧bhras

Noun

fiabhras m (genitive singular fiabhrais, plural fiabhrasan)

  1. (pathology) fever

Derived terms

References

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