orbbae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• orbae, orpe

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *orbyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈorbe/

Noun

orbbae n

1. a patrimony, inheritance (of land)
   • 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. 100^c14

     a n-orbae

     the inheritance; glosses possessio

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	orbbaeN	orbbaeL	orbbaeL
Vocative	orbbaeN	orbbaeL	orbbaeL
Accusative	orbbaeN	orbbaeL	orbbaeL
Genitive	orbbaiL	orbbaeL	orbbaeN
Dative	orbbuL	orbbaib	orbbaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• comarbbae (“successor, inheritor”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: forba
  • Irish: forba

Mutation

Mutation of orbbae

radical	lenition	nasalization
orbbae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-orbbae

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), “orb(b)a”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language