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

Mutated forms of tarbh
radical lenition eclipsis
tarbh tharbh dtarbh

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

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

Mutation of tarbh
radical lenition
tarbh tharbh

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

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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