lebor

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• lebur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin liber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲeβər/, [ˈl͈ʲeβor]

Noun

lebor m (genitive libuir or libair or liubair, nominative plural libuir or libair or liubair)

1. book
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 816

     Lebor quasi libor a libro.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	lebor	leborL	libairL
vocative	libair	leborL	lebruH
accusative	leborN	leborL	lebruH
genitive	libairL	lebor	leborN
dative	leborL	lebraib	lebraib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

• lebrach
• lebrán
• lebróir

Descendants

• Irish: leabhar
• Manx: lioar
• Scottish Gaelic: leabhar

Mutation

Mutation of lebor

radical	lenition	nasalization
lebor also llebor after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lebor pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

References

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