úabar

Old Irish

Alternative forms

óbar

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *auberos.

Noun

úabar m (genitive úabair)

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	úabar	—	—
vocative	úabair	—	—
accusative	úabar^N	—	—
genitive	úabair^L	—	—
dative	úabar^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: úabar
- Irish: uabhar
- Scottish Gaelic: uabhar

Mutation

Mutation of *úabar*
radical	lenition	nasalization
úabar (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	úabar	n-úabar

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), “úabar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language