gobhar

See also: Gobhar

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.əɾ/

Noun

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

1. goat

Mutation

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

• 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