Cornish

Adjective

feur

1. Mixed mutation of meur.

Irish

Noun

feur m ‎(genitive singular féir, nominative plural feura)

1. Obsolete spelling of féar

Declension

Mutation

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

• fiabhras-feòir
• feur-itheach ‎(“herbivorous”)

Verb

feur ‎(past dh'fheur, future feuraidh, verbal noun feuradh, past participle feurte)

1. (dated, transitive, intransitive) graze

Synonyms

• feuraich

References

1. ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 409

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• “fér” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.