adbar
Old Irish
Etymology
Perhaps from ad- + the root of feraid (“grant, afford, supply”) and fo·fera (“prepare, provide; cause”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
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 glosses 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
- ci ad·cobrinn móidim do dénum ni bói adbar híc
- 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
- thou shalt have cause of joy
- rot·bia adbar fáilte
- 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
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
Mutation
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
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 518
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language