tobán

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See also: toban and tóban

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish toba[1] (borrowed from Middle English tubbe, tobbe) + -án.

Pronunciation

Noun

tobán m (genitive singular tobáin, nominative plural tobáin)

  1. tub
  2. tubby person

Declension

Declension of tobán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tobán tobáin
Vocative a thobáin a thobána
Genitive tobáin tobán
Dative tobán tobáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tobán na tobáin
Genitive an tobáin na dtobán
Dative leis an tobán

don tobán

leis na tobáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tobán thobán dtobán
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), “toba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 371, page 126

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