orbbae

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *orbyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈorbe/

Noun

orbbae n

  1. a patrimony, inheritance (of land)
    • 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. 100c14
      a n-orbae
      the inheritance; glosses possessio

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative orbbaeN orbbaeL orbbaeL
Vocative orbbaeN orbbaeL orbbaeL
Accusative orbbaeN orbbaeL orbbaeL
Genitive orbbaiL orbbaeL orbbaeN
Dative orbbuL orbbaib orbbaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: forba

Mutation

Mutation of orbbae
radical lenition nasalization
orbbae
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-orbbae

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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