colubir

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coluber.

Noun

colubir

1. (hapax) viper, venomous snake

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “colubir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language