orbbae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *orbyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈorbe/

Noun

orbbae n

  1. a patrimony, inheritance (of land)
    • 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. 100c14
      a n-orbae
      the inheritance; glosses possessio

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative orbbaeN orbbaeL orbbaeL
Vocative orbbaeN orbbaeL orbbaeL
Accusative orbbaeN orbbaeL orbbaeL
Genitive orbbaiL orbbaeL orbbaeN
Dative orbbuL orbbaib orbbaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: forba

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
orbbae unchanged n-orbbae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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