v (*to-ben-) later tubaid, q.v.
(a)
strikes at, attacks,
opposes; worsts, defeats:
? erchur . . . ferais fair | co tob Macc
Con iar cach gair,
ZCP xii 379.9
(do-boing?). dobbeotar fair
defeated him (?),
LL 4908
=
dobeotar,
Lec. 606b22
. ni thubat
a meicc i n-agid mo macc their sons will not oppose my sons (?),
LL 147a43
(
PRIA xix 550 § 36
). Usually trans. (some of the
foll. should perh. be referred to next section): o rotubastar
Cesair `since C. had attacked',
CCath. 3779
. fer nār tubadh a
dteagmáil who was never worsted in encounter,
ZCP ii 342
.
fead na tuaithe nár thubadh,
Hy Fiach. 246
.
cablach nar
tubadh,
Caithr. CC 37
.
ben nar tubad dealba ac dāim,
Lec.
364b 40
. fa sciathaib nar tubad dath whose hue was never
dimmed (?),
398a37
.
Tuathal Teachtmhar nar tubhadh,
Content. xvi 162
.
ba heisidhe laithe thoisiuch in rotubadh
a ttreisi,
Hugh Roe 258
. an fear nach clechtann cath | nach
tubhtar asa tosach who is not worsted at the outset (?),
Ériu
iv 214
.
(b)
reproaches, taunts (with). With accus. of thing and FRI
(or other prep.) of pers.:
féige ní thuband fri ní,
Otia i 120 n. 3
.
tobbie frie a imthechta fobíth Ulad ┐ athar cast in her teeth
all he had done,
ZCP ix 192
(cf.
x 424
).
dobí a an(a)im fria
enechsom,
Ériu xvi 38 § 8
.
dorrubai frim eneach,
TE i 4
(
Ériu
xii
).
arna toirbeitis a ainme (leg. ainim) ina inchaib,
Ériu xvi 38
§ 7 (see p. 44)
(cf.
Laws i 72. 29
). da mbeith ainib bad mo for
Choinculaind ised rothuibebad fris he would have taunted him
with it,
TBC-I¹ 2614
.
rom-cháin ┐ conrubaidh (.i. tubhaidh) fri
m'enech gin mháthair nó athair lium,
ZCP v 523
. rothub fris
a éccóir ┐ a aindlighedh fair he reproached him with the wrong
and injustice he had done him (the speaker),
Hugh Roe 92
.
gur thubsat in macradh a braith fris,
LL 387a3
. focherd i
serg de, fódaig na rotubaide fria enech that no reproach might
be made against him,
TE § 6LU (
IT i 121
).
rotubhadh fris
tláithe a fhoghnamha,
AFM vi 2142
. Without accus.: rothub
ri Hua F. frind has impugned us,
Lism. L. 2255
.
(c) In follg. perh. simply
says, declares (to):
rosbói ni
nochomairled | cen co labradar fri nech (cen co tobnadhur fri
neuch, v.l.),
IT i 97
=
cenco tabnad fri nech,
Anecd. v 9
(with line defective). tubh re Fer nDiadh . . . mar daleg in
flath ferda co hogaib Emna a m'aenar upbraid F. D. with
having left (?),
YBL 336a28
.
tubh dam re Fraech . . . ara
focmaid leis na hogaib a hEmain,
30
.
(d) With FRI
measures by (as a standard), compares with (?):
cach cruthach atcíther a nErinn . . . is risin mac sin dobiter,
RC xii 62 § 21
=
dobiotur,
Cóir Anm.² ii 45 § 157
. ba hūath fri cāch a gabāil inda lāim ┐ gach rēt
ba adētchidhe la cāch dobentai frie . . . unde in prouerbium
uenit
`fē fris', amail is n-adētc[h]ide in flesc cui nomen fē, sic
et alia ress cui comparatur
(of a wand kept in burial-places
and used to measure corpses),
Corm. Y 606
.
Vn. tuba, tubad. Cf. tobéim.
See do-fuiben.