adopair

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Old Irish

Etymology

From ad- +‎ uss- +‎ beirid.

Pronunciation

Verb

ad·opair (prototonic ·idbair or ·edbair, verbal noun idbart or edbart)

  1. to offer
  2. to offer up, sacrifice

Conjugation

Quotations

  • 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. 44c17
    atam·roipred [translating consecratus sum]
    I have been offered up

Descendants

  • Irish: íobair
  • Scottish Gaelic: ìobair

Mutation

Mutation of adopair
radical lenition nasalization
ad·opair
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged ad·n-opair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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