cobair

• cobuir

Essentially com- prefixed to the stem of fo·reith (“to help”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.βərʲ/, [ˈkoβɨrʲ]

cobair f (genitive cobrad)

1. help

• 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. 16^a31

  .i. is gnáth do cobir cach lobir hi fochidib.

  i.e. He is wont to help every feeble one in [their] tribulations.

• 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. 44^c9

  Inna n-ascad .i. inna námat són as·berat bid cobuir dó in Día [dïa] forgéni ⁊ hi ru·frescachae. Híróin són immurgu.

  Of the rivals, that is to say of the enemies who say that the God whom he served, and in whom he hoped, will be a help to him. That is irony however.

• cobraithir

• Middle Irish: cobair
  • Irish: cabhair
  • Scottish Gaelic: cobhair
  • Manx: couyr

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cobair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language