See also: Gobhar

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish gabor (goat), from Proto-Celtic *gabros (he-goat), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (he-goat).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gobhar m or f (genitive singular gobhair or goibhre, plural gobhair)

  1. goat

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “gobhar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 gabor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language