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English
Proper noun
tánaiste
- Alternative letter-case form of Tánaiste
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tánaise, tánaiste.
Pronunciation
Noun
tánaiste m (genitive singular tánaiste, nominative plural tánaistí)
- (historical, monarchy) tanist, heir presumptive
- (politics) deputy prime minister
- second-in-command, second in rank or dignity; next in order
- third finger
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
tánaiste
- (genitive as attributive adjective) the second, another
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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tánaiste
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thánaiste
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dtánaiste
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tánaiste”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tánaise, tánaiste”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language