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Old Irish
Etymology
Essentially com- prefixed to the stem of fo·reith (“to help”).
Pronunciation
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 tribulations.
Inflection
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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cobair
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| Vocative
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cobair
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| Accusative
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cobraidN, cobrithN
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| Genitive
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cobrad
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| Dative
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cobraidL, cobrithL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of cobair
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lenition |
nasalization
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| cobair
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chobair
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cobair
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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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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