Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Alteration of earlier obann, from Middle Irish opund (quick, sudden).[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic obann.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tobann (genitive singular masculine tobainn, genitive singular feminine tobainne, plural tobanna, comparative tobainne)

  1. sudden, unexpected
  2. hasty, quick
  3. precipitate (with a hasty impulse), rash, snap (done quickly and unexpectedly), abrupt (without notice)
  4. impetuous (making arbitrary decisions), impulsive (actuated by impulse or transient feelings)
  5. irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tobann thobann dtobann
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ tobann”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “opunn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 129, page 50

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