adbar
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from ad- + the root of feraid (“grant, afford, supply”) and fo·fera (“prepare, provide; cause”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adbar n
- material, matter (kind of substance)
- c. 850, Karlsruhe Glosses on Augustine, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 8, l. 32:
- adbar
- elimentum (“element”) [sic]
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 138c3
- c. 850, Karlsruhe Glosses on Augustine, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 8, l. 32:
- reason (excuse, explanation; motive for an action or determination; a cause)
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 17d17
- ci ad·cobrinn móidim do dénum ni bói adbar híc
- though I desired to make a boast, there was no cause here
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 20a9
- rot·bia adbar fáilte
- you sg will have cause of joy
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 17d17
Declension
[edit]Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | adbarN | adbarN | adbarL, adbara |
Vocative | adbarN | adbarN | adbarL, adbara |
Accusative | adbarN | adbarN | adbarL, adbara |
Genitive | adbairL | adbar | adbarN |
Dative | adburL | adbaraib | adbaraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
adbar (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-adbar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 518
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wer- (heed)
- Old Irish terms prefixed with ad-
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish neuter nouns
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish neuter o-stem nouns