tabhair

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ·tabair, prototonic form of do·beir.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠuːɾʲ/
  • (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠoːɾʲ/
  • Note: The phrase tabhair dhom (give me, gimme) is pronounced /ˈt̪ˠɔɾˠəmˠ/ in rapid speech.

Verb

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tabhair (present analytic tugann, future analytic tabharfaidh, verbal noun tabhairt, past participle tugtha) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. give
  2. bring

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tabhair thabhair dtabhair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·beir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ·tabair, prototonic form of do·beir.[1]

Verb

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tabhair (past thug, future bheir, verbal noun toirt, past participle tugta)

  1. give, bestow, grant

Usage notes

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  • tabhair and thoir are interchangeable.

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tabhair thabhair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·beir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tabhair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC