saibhir

Irish

From Old Irish saidbir (“rich, wealthy”) (opposed to daidbir (“poor, indigent; feeble”), modern daibhir).^[1]

saibhir (genitive singular masculine saibhir, genitive singular feminine saibhre, plural saibhre, comparative saibhre)

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

saibhir m (genitive singular saibhir, nominative plural saibhre)

Declension of saibhir (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an saibhir	na saibhre
genitive	an tsaibhir	na saibhre
dative	leis an saibhir don saibhir	leis na saibhre

Mutated forms of *saibhir*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
saibhir	shaibhir after an, tsaibhir	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saidbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 59, page 31
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 83, page 34