tobann

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Alteration of earlier obann, from Middle Irish opund (“quick, sudden”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic obann.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tobann (genitive singular masculine tobainn, genitive singular feminine tobainne, plural tobanna, comparative tobainne)

  1. sudden, unexpected
  2. hasty, quick
  3. precipitate (with a hasty impulse), rash, snap (done quickly and unexpectedly), abrupt (without notice)
  4. impetuous (making arbitrary decisions), impulsive (actuated by impulse or transient feelings)
  5. irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered

Declension

Declension of tobann
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tobann thobann tobanna;
thobanna2
vocative thobainn tobanna
genitive tobainne tobanna tobann
dative tobann;
thobann1 		thobann;
thobainn (archaic) 		tobanna;
thobanna2
Comparative níos tobainne
Superlative is tobainne

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tobann
radical lenition eclipsis
tobann thobann dtobann

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

References

  1. ^ “tobann”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “opunn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 129, page 50

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