cobair
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈko.vərʲ/
Noun
cobair f (genitive cobrad)
- help
- 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. 16a31
- .i. is gnáth do cobir cach lobir hi fochidib.
- i.e. He is wont to help every feeble one in [their] tribulations.
- 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. 16a31
Inflection
| Feminine t-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | cobair | — | — |
| Vocative | cobair | — | — |
| Accusative | cobraidN, cobrithN | — | — |
| Genitive | cobrad | — | — |
| Dative | cobraidL, cobrithL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| cobair | chobair | cobair pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cobair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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