adbar

Perhaps from ad- +‎ the root of feraid (“grant, afford, supply”) and fo·fera (“prepare, provide; cause”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈaðβar]

adbar n

1. material, matter (kind of substance)
   • c. 850, Karlsruhe Glosses on Augustine, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 8, l. 32:

     adbar

     elimentum (“element”) [sic]

   • 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. 138^c3

     isa n-adbar nephdelbaigthe

     informemque materiam (“into the unformed material”)

2. reason (excuse, explanation; motive for an action or determination; a cause)
   • 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. 17^d17

     ci ad·cobrinn móidim do dénum ni bói adbar híc

     though I desired to make a boast, there was no cause here

   • 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. 20^a9

     rot·bia adbar fáilte

     you sg will have cause of joy

• Irish: ábhar
• Manx: oyr
• Scottish Gaelic: adhbhar

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