accobar

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === accobor === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *ad-kubrom, possibly identical to the first part of the Gaulish proper noun Ad-cobro-uati (dative, literally “deviner of wishes”). From *kubros (“desiring”) (see cobar), from Proto-Indo-European *kwep-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈa.ku.βəɾ/ (Blasse) [ˈa.ku.βaɾ] (Griffith) [ˈa.kø.βəɾ] === Noun === accobar n (genitive accobair) verbal noun of ad·cobra desire, wish covetousness, greed carnal desire, lust For quotations using this term, see Citations:accobar. ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== accobrach (“desirous”) accobras (“desire”) === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “accobar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language