"beirt" meaning in Irish

See beirt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bʲɛɾˠtʲ/ [Munster], /bˠeɾˠtʲ/ [Connacht], /bˠɞɾʲtʲ/ [Connacht], /bʲɨɾˠtʲ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Middle Irish beirt (“pair, two (people)”), from bert (“burden, load; bundle”). Etymology templates: {{root|ga|ine-pro|*bʰer-}}, {{inh|ga|mga|beirt|t=pair, two (people)}} Middle Irish beirt (“pair, two (people)”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|beirte|||||||nominative plural|beirteanna|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} beirt f (genitive singular beirte, nominative plural beirteanna), {{ga-noun|f|~e|~eanna}} beirt f (genitive singular beirte, nominative plural beirteanna) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: beirte [genitive, singular], beirteanna [nominative, plural], except of d [triggers-lenition], s [triggers-lenition], t [triggers-lenition], no-table-tags [table-tags], beirt [indefinite, nominative, singular], beirteanna [indefinite, nominative, plural], a bheirt [indefinite, singular, vocative], a bheirteanna [indefinite, plural, vocative], beirte [genitive, indefinite, singular], beirteanna [genitive, indefinite, plural], beirt [dative, indefinite, singular], beirteanna [dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an bheirt [definite, nominative, singular], na beirteanna [definite, nominative, plural], na beirte [definite, genitive, singular], na mbeirteanna [definite, genitive, plural], leis an mbeirt [dative, definite, singular], don bheirt [dative, definite, singular], leis na beirteanna [dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], beirt [error-unrecognized-form], bheirt [error-unrecognized-form], mbeirt [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. (a group of) two, a pair
    (of persons)
    Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-beirt-ga-noun-uvptzbRF Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Irish personal numbers, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Two Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Irish personal numbers: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Two: 50 50
  2. (a group of) two, a pair
    (of things, without dependent noun)
    Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-beirt-ga-noun-uvptzbRF1 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Irish personal numbers, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Two Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Irish personal numbers: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Two: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dhá (english: two; non-personal), (english: two; non-personal), dís

Inflected forms

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      "args": {
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        "1": "ga",
        "2": "mga",
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      "name": "inh"
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      "form": "beirte",
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      "form": "except of d",
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      "tags": [
        "triggers-lenition"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beirt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bheirt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "a bheirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beirte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beirt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an bheirt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na beirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na beirte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na mbeirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an mbeirt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don bheirt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis na beirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "beirt",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
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      "form": "bheirt",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mbeirt",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
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        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "beirte",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
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        "g3": "",
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  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "two; non-personal",
      "translation": "two; non-personal",
      "word": "dhá"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "two; non-personal",
      "translation": "two; non-personal",
      "word": "dá"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "dís"
    }
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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            [
              7,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I have two brothers.",
          "text": "Tá beirt deartháireacha agam.",
          "translation": "I have two brothers.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              25
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The two composed poetry.",
          "text": "Bhí filíocht ag an mbeirt.",
          "translation": "The two composed poetry.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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            [
              71,
              75
            ]
          ],
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            [
              68,
              71
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Did you ever have children? Yes, I had six, I have four [still] and two died.",
          "ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 48:",
          "text": "ə rug tøsə klȧn̄ riəv? rugəs, rug mḗ šešŕ̥, tā ḱǡŕ ȷīb agm̥, agəs kȧĺū bøŕc.",
          "translation": "Did you ever have children? Yes, I had six, I have four [still] and two died.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "(a group of) two, a pair",
        "(of persons)"
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          "english": "There are a pair of white sheep in the field.",
          "text": "Tá beirt de chaoirigh bhána sa ghort.",
          "translation": "There are a pair of white sheep in the field.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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      "qualifier": "a group of",
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        "(a group of) two, a pair",
        "(of things, without dependent noun)"
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        "of things",
        "without dependent noun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/bʲɛɾˠtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bˠeɾˠtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bˠɞɾʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bʲɨɾˠtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beirt"
}
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    "Irish personal numbers",
    "Irish second-declension nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-",
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "a bheirt",
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      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a bheirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
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        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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        "genitive",
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        "plural"
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        "singular"
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      "form": "beirteanna",
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        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "an bheirt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "na beirteanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na beirte",
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      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "na mbeirteanna",
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      "tags": [
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "leis an mbeirt",
      "source": "declension",
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        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "don bheirt",
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        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
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      "form": "leis na beirteanna",
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        "plural"
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    },
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        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
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  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "english": "two; non-personal",
      "translation": "two; non-personal",
      "word": "dhá"
    },
    {
      "english": "two; non-personal",
      "translation": "two; non-personal",
      "word": "dá"
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    {
      "word": "dís"
    }
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          "english": "I have two brothers.",
          "text": "Tá beirt deartháireacha agam.",
          "translation": "I have two brothers.",
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              25
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          "english": "The two composed poetry.",
          "text": "Bhí filíocht ag an mbeirt.",
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          "type": "example"
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              71,
              75
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          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
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              68,
              71
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          ],
          "english": "Did you ever have children? Yes, I had six, I have four [still] and two died.",
          "ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 48:",
          "text": "ə rug tøsə klȧn̄ riəv? rugəs, rug mḗ šešŕ̥, tā ḱǡŕ ȷīb agm̥, agəs kȧĺū bøŕc.",
          "translation": "Did you ever have children? Yes, I had six, I have four [still] and two died.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "two, a pair"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "two",
          "two"
        ],
        [
          "pair",
          "pair"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "a group of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(a group of) two, a pair",
        "(of persons)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of persons"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              12,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "english": "There are a pair of white sheep in the field.",
          "text": "Tá beirt de chaoirigh bhána sa ghort.",
          "translation": "There are a pair of white sheep in the field.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "two, a pair"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "two",
          "two"
        ],
        [
          "pair",
          "pair"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "a group of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(a group of) two, a pair",
        "(of things, without dependent noun)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of things",
        "without dependent noun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bʲɛɾˠtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bˠeɾˠtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bˠɞɾʲtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bʲɨɾˠtʲ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beirt"
}

Download raw JSONL data for beirt meaning in Irish (5.9kB)

{
  "called_from": "inflection/865",
  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: beirt/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
  "path": [
    "beirt"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "beirt",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
  "path": [
    "beirt"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "beirt",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
  "path": [
    "beirt"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "beirt",
  "trace": ""
}

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