cobar

From co +‎ -bar.

cobar m

1. river, gully, channel, sluice

• cobarî

Probably the verbal noun of unattested *cobur, from Proto-Celtic *kubreti, from Proto-Indo-European *kup- (“wish”). Compare ad·cobra. Cognate with Latin cupiō.

cobar ?

1. desiring

Used in compounds (see Derived terms).

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• accobar
• Conchobar m (“Proper name: hound-desiring”)
• Ólchobar m (“Proper name: drink-desiring, fond of drink”)

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “cobar”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN