úabar

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• óbar

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *auberos.

Noun

úabar m (genitive úabair)

1. pride
2. arrogance
3. vanity

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	úabar	—	—
Vocative	úabair	—	—
Accusative	úabarN	—	—
Genitive	úabairL	—	—
Dative	úabarL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: úabar
  • Irish: uabhar
  • Scottish Gaelic: uabhar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
úabar	unchanged	n-úabar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úabar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language