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Old Irish
Etymology
From túalaing + -e.
Pronunciation
Noun
túailnge f
- ability, capability
- 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. 17b5
Ammi túailṅge ar mbréthre.- We are potent in our word.
- (literally, “We are of the ability of our word.”)
Usage notes
Used only in the genitive, in the expression is túailnge (“is able, potent”, literally “is of the ability, capability”)
Declension
Feminine iā-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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túailngeL
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Vocative
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túailngeL
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Accusative
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túailngiN
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Genitive
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túailnge
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Dative
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túailngiL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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túailnge
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thúailnge
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túailnge pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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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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