tarbh

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tarb, from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (bull) (compare Welsh tarw, Cornish tarow, Breton tarv, Gaulish taruos), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (bull) (compare Latin taurus).

Pronunciation

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Noun

tarbh m (genitive singular tairbh, nominative plural tairbh)

  1. bull

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tarbh tharbh dtarbh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading


Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tarb, from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (bull) (compare Welsh tarw, Cornish tarow, Breton tarv, Gaulish taruos), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (bull) (compare Latin taurus).

Pronunciation

Noun

tarbh m (genitive singular tairbh, plural tairbh)

  1. bull
  2. (astronomy, astrology) Taurus

Derived terms

Mutation

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tarbh”, 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), “tarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language