tairngire

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

The feminine noun is from Old Irish tairngire (“a promise, prophecy”).[2] The masculine noun replaces Classical Gaelic tairngeartaidh (“prophet”).[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

tairngire f (genitive singular tairngire)

  1. Alternative form of tairngreacht

Declension

Declension of tairngire (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
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

Noun

tairngire m (genitive singular tairngire, nominative plural tairngirí)

  1. prophet

Declension

Declension of tairngire (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tairngire tairngirí
vocative a thairngire a thairngirí
genitive tairngire tairngirí
dative tairngire tairngirí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tairngire na tairngirí
genitive an tairngire na dtairngirí
dative leis an tairngire
don tairngire 		leis na tairngirí

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tairngire
radical lenition eclipsis
tairngire thairngire dtairngire

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “tairngire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairngire, tarngaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairngertaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 303, page 107

Further reading

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

Mutation of tairngire
radical lenition nasalization
tairngire thairngire tairngire
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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