gobhar

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gabor (goat), from Proto-Celtic *gabros (he-goat), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (he-goat).

Pronunciation

Noun

gobhar m or f (genitive singular gobhair or goibhre, plural gobhair)

  1. goat

Mutation

Mutation of gobhar
radical lenition
gobhar ghobhar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “gobhar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gabor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language