torbae

• torbe

to- +‎ ro- +‎ báe (“profit”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtorve/

torbae n (genitive torbai, no plural)

1. verbal noun of do·rorban
2. profit, benefit
   • 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. 12^c32

     Acht nammáa is samlid is torbe són, co eter·certa a n‑as·bera et con·rucca i n‑ætarcne cáich.

     But it is only thus that this is a profit, that he may interpret what he says and bring it into everyone’s understanding.

   • 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. 12^c36

     Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?

     What do I profit you pl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?

• torbatu

• Irish: tarbha, tairbhe
• Scottish Gaelic: tairbhe

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “torbae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, 445–46/mode/2up pages 443, 445–46
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 529