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Old Irish
Etymology
to- + ro- + báe (“profit”)
Pronunciation
Noun
torbae n (genitive torbai, no plural)
- verbal noun of do·rorban
- profit, benefit, use
Inflection
Neuter io-stem
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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torbaeN, torbe
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Vocative
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torbaeN
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Accusative
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torbaeN, torbe
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Genitive
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torbaiL, torbiL
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Dative
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torbuL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Quotations
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12c32
Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.- But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12c36
Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad mne labrar?- What do I profit you pl if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?
- (literally, “what is my profit to you…”)
- 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. 120c7
cid torbae ara·torsata ⁊ cía gním du·gníat inna dúli- what use the elements have been created for and what work they do
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of torbae
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lenition |
nasalization
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torbae
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thorbae
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torbae pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “torbae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 647.11 Anm., pages 445–446
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 529; reprinted 2017