gobhar

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish gabor (goat), from Proto-Celtic *gabros (he-goat), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (he-goat).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gobhar m or f (genitive singular gobhair or goibhre, plural gobhair)

  1. goat

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
gobhar ghobhar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “gobhar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gabor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language