dobeir

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish do·beir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪oˈbʲeɾʲ/

Verb

do·beir (prototonic ·tabair, verbal noun tabairt)

1. to bring, take
2. to give
3. to place, put

Conjugation

• Third-person singular imperfect indicative deuterotonic: do·bered
• Third-person singular past subjunctive prototonic: ·taibred

Perfective forms derived from do·uic (“bring”)

• Third-person singular imperfect indicative prototonic: ·tucad

Quotations

• c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, lines 13–14:

  In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a taibred din chētgabāil, iss ed no·ithed. Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill.

  Each man who came along the passage would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he took at the first grabbing, it was that which he ate. If, however, he did not take anything at (literally “from”) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.

Descendants

• Irish: bheir, tabhair
• Manx: ver, toyr
• Scottish Gaelic: bheir, tabhair, thoir

Mutation

Mutation of dobeir

radical	lenition	nasalization
do·beir	do·beir pronounced with /-β(ʲ)-/	do·mbeir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle 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), “dobeir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language