1093.
Lindeman
(Fredrik Otto): Varia: I. 1. Archaic Irish
ferba fíra
: a speculative note.
In
Ériu 41
(1990), pp. 123–125.
vs. C.
Watkins
, in G.
Cardona
and N. H.
Zide
(eds.),
Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald
(Tübingen 1987), 403; takes
fíra
to be acc. pl. fem. of adjective *
wı̄ro/ā
- < PIE *
swēro/ā
- ‘heavy’.
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Words/Proper Names:
*wı̄ro/ā
ferba fíra
fíra (ferba fíra)
swēro/ā