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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish colba.
Pronunciation
Noun
colbha m (genitive singular colbha, nominative plural colbhaí)
- (outer) edge (sharp terminating border; a margin; extreme verge), brink, border
- Synonyms: broinne, ciumhais, imeall
- colbha cathrach ― the outer fringe of a city
- surround (anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something)
- outer edge of bed
- colbha leapa ― bedside
- bedhead (vertical panel or board at the end of a bed where the pillow is placed; that end itself)
- kerb (edge between pavement and roadway)
- colbha bóthair ― roadside, kerb (from the point of view of the road)
- colbha cosáin ― kerb (from the point of view of the pavement/sidewalk)
- (obsolete) ridge (chain of mountains or hills)
- Synonyms: droim, mullach
- (obsolete) sceptre
- Synonym: ríshlat
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| colbha
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cholbha
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gcolbha
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “colba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “colḃa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 170
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “colbha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 54