doairbir

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ beirid.

• IPA^(key):

do·airbir (prototonic ·tairbir, verbal noun terbirt) (transitive, attested mostly in the passive)

1. to bend
2. to subdue, to (cause to) bow down
   • 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. 22^c10

     Is bés trá dosom anísiu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.

     This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.

   • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 166

     Is é dod·n-árbart – scél caín – íarum fo láma Ioäin condon·forgaib – glése glan – di phecad ar senathar.

     It is he who lowered himself (fair tidings) thereafter under the hands of John, so that he has seized us — pure brightness — from the sin of our ancestors.

   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, page 267; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:

     Dom·rairbera m'aite co Crist,

     May my teacher subdue me under Christ...

3. to yield, to surrender

• Middle Irish: tairbrid
  • Irish: toirbhir

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·airbir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 465