cobair

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === cobuir === Etymology === Essentially com- prefixed to the stem of fo·reith (“to help”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈko.βəɾʲ/ (Blasse) [ˈko.βɪɾʲ] (Griffith) [ˈko.βɨɾʲ] === Noun === cobair f (genitive cobrad) help ==== Inflection ==== ==== Quotations ==== 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. 16a31 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. 44c9 ==== Derived terms ==== cobraithir ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: cobair Irish: cabhair Scottish Gaelic: cobhair Manx: couyr === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cobair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language