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orbae

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McCone (Kim): OIr. erbaid ‘entrusts’, orb ‘heir’ and orbae ‘inheritance’.
In Studia celtica et indogermanica [Fs. Meid] (1999), pp. 239–242.
Argues that OIr. erbaid continues a Celt. primary verb *erb-e/o- derived from a PIE root *h1erbh- ‘bequeath’ to which OIr. orb and orbae are morphologically related.
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