tairngire

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tairngire.

Noun

tairngire f (genitive singular tairngire)

  1. Alternative form of tairngreacht

Declension

Declension of tairngire

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative tairngire
Vocative a thairngire
Genitive tairngire
Dative tairngire

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an tairngire
Genitive na tairngire
Dative leis an tairngire

don tairngire

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tairngire thairngire dtairngire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ in- +‎ -gaire.

Pronunciation

Noun

tairngire n (genitive tairngiri, nominative plural tairngire)

  1. verbal noun of do·airngir: promise
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 109d5
      Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.
      God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

Declension

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Vocative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Accusative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Genitive tairngiriL tairngireL tairngireN
Dative tairngiriuL tairngirib tairngirib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: tairngire

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tairngire thairngire tairngire
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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