béar

See also: bear, Bear, beár, and bèar

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bear, from Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bʲeːɾˠ/

Noun

béar m (genitive singular béir, nominative plural béir)

bear (mammal)
Synonym: mathúin (literary)
(finance) bear

Declension

Declension of béar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	béar	béir
Vocative	a bhéir	a bhéara
Genitive	béir	béar
Dative	béar	béir

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an béar	na béir
Genitive	an bhéir	na mbéar
Dative	leis an mbéar don bhéar	leis na béir

Derived terms

béar bán
Béar Beag (“Ursa Minor”)
béar donn
béar dubh
béar gréine
béar liath (“grizzly bear”)
Béar Mór (“Ursa Major”)
béarmhargadh
béarúil
béirín
cró béar
treoraí béar (“bear-leader”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
béar	bhéar	mbéar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “béar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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