adbar

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈað.βəɾ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈað.βaɾ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈað.βəɾ]

adbar n

1. material, matter (kind of substance)
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

• 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”)

• 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 [translating elimentum] [sic] ― element

• 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