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rabharta

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish robartae.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rabharta m (genitive singular rabharta, nominative plural rabhartaí)

  1. spring tide
  2. (literal and figurative) flood
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Do ghlac rabharta feirge an captaen, ach níor leig sé aon nídh air.
      A flood of rage seized the captain, but he didn’t let on.

Declension

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Declension of rabharta (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative rabharta rabhartaí
vocative a rabharta a rabhartaí
genitive rabharta rabhartaí
dative rabharta rabhartaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an rabharta na rabhartaí
genitive an rabharta na rabhartaí
dative leis an rabharta
don rabharta 		leis na rabhartaí

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “robarta, rabarta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 199, page 100
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18

Further reading

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