torbae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• torbe

Etymology

to- +‎ ro- +‎ báe (“profit”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtorve/

Noun

torbae n (genitive torbai, no plural)

1. verbal noun of do·rorban
2. profit, benefit
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c32

     Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.

     But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c36

     Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?

     What do I profit you pl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	torbaeN, torbe	—	—
Vocative	torbaeN	—	—
Accusative	torbaeN, torbe	—	—
Genitive	torbaiL, torbiL	—	—
Dative	torbuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• torbatu

Descendants

• Irish: tarbha, tairbhe
• Scottish Gaelic: tairbhe

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
torbae	thorbae	torbae pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “torbae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, 445–46/mode/2up pages 443, 445–46
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 529