torbae

Old Irish

to- +‎ ro- +‎ báe (“profit”)

torbae n (genitive torbai, no plural)

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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. 12^c32
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. 12^c36
Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]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. 120^c7
cid torbae ara·torsata ⁊ cía gním du·gníat inna dúli
what use the elements have been created for and what work they do

Mutation of *torbae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
torbae	thorbae	torbae pronounced with /d-/

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