dobur

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dubros, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubʰrós (“deep”). Compare Middle Welsh dwfyr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdoβur]

Noun

dobur m (genitive dobuir)

(rare) water, river

Inflection

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

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

doburchú (“otter”)

Descendants

Irish: dobhar
⇒ Middle Irish: dobrán
- Irish: dobhrán
- Scottish Gaelic: dòbhran

Mutation

Mutation of *dobur*
radical	lenition	nasalization
dobur	dobur pronounced with /ð-/	ndobur

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