tarbh

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tarb,[1] from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (“bull”) (compare Welsh tarw, Cornish tarow, Breton tarv, Gaulish taruos), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (“bull”) (compare Latin taurus).

Pronunciation

Noun

tarbh m (genitive singular tairbh, nominative plural tairbh)

  1. bull (adult male bovine)
  2. bull (adult male of other large mammal species)
    tarbh róin ― bull seal

Declension

Declension of tarbh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tarbh tairbh
Vocative a thairbh a tharbha
Genitive tairbh tarbh
Dative tarbh tairbh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tarbh na tairbh
Genitive an tairbh na dtarbh
Dative leis an tarbh

don tarbh

leis na tairbh

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tarbh tharbh dtarbh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 186, page 93
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 286, page 101

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tarb, from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (“bull”) (compare Welsh tarw, Cornish tarow, Breton tarv, Gaulish taruos), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (“bull”) (compare Latin taurus).

Pronunciation

Noun

tarbh m (genitive singular tairbh, plural tairbh)

  1. bull

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tarbh tharbh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tarbh”, 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), “tarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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