Old Irish

Noun

adbar n

1. material, matter (kind of substance)
   • c. 850, Karlsruhe Glosses on Augustine, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 8, l. 32:

     adbar glosses elimentum ‎(“element”) [sic]

   • c. 875, 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. 138^c3

     isa n-adbar nephdelbaigthe glosses informemque materiam

     into the unformed material

2. reason (excuse, explanation; motive for an action or determination; a cause)
   • 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. 17^d17

     ci ad·cobrinn móidim do dénum ni bói adbar híc

     though I desired to make a boast, there was no cause here

   • 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. 20^a9

     rot·bia adbar fáilte

     thou shalt have cause of joy

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: ábhar
• Scottish Gaelic: adhbhar

Mutation

References

1. ↑ Holger Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1913, vol. II, p. 518

• “adbar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.