Muir Robur

Old Irish

Etymology

From muir (“sea”) + a form of Latin ruber (“red”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmuɾʲ ˈro.βuɾ/
  • (Blasse) [ˌmuɾʲ ˈro.βuɾ]
  • (Griffith) [ˌmuɾʲ ˈro.βøɾ]

Proper noun

Muir Robur n (genitive Moro Robuir)

1. Red Sea (a sea between Africa and Arabia)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 96^c1

     Du·fuargabsat huisci Moro Robuir intan ro·mboi popul Dǽ for a muir.

     The waters of the Red Sea rose when God's people were on the seashore.

Inflection

Neuter i-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	Muir RoburN	—	—
vocative	Muir RoburN	—	—
accusative	Muir RoburN	—	—
genitive	Moro RobuirL	—	—
dative	Muir RoburL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• Middle Irish: Muir Romair, Muir Romor

Mutation

Mutation of Muir Robur

radical	lenition	nasalization
Muir Robur also mMuir Robur in h-prothesis environments	Muir Robur pronounced with /β̃-/	Muir Robur also mMuir Robur

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), “robur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language