torbatu

Old Irish

Etymology

From torbae +‎ -tu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtorβadu]

Noun

torbatu m

1. profitableness, advantage
   • 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. 144^d3

     Nach torbatu coitchenn ro·boí indib fri dénum n-uilc, at·rubalt tar hǽsi á pectha.

     Any common advantage that had been in them for doing evil, it has perished for their sin.

Inflection

Masculine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	torbatu	—	—
Vocative	torbatu	—	—
Accusative	torbatidN	—	—
Genitive	torbatad	—	—
Dative	torbatidL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
torbatu	thorbatu	torbatu pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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