tairseach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish tairsech (“threshold”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

tairseach f (genitive singular tairsí, nominative plural tairseacha)

  1. threshold (myriad senses); sill
  2. (Internet) portal

Declension

Declension of tairseach (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tairseach tairseacha
vocative a thairseach a thairseacha
genitive tairsí tairseach
dative tairseach
tairsigh (archaic, dialectal) 		tairseacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tairseach na tairseacha
genitive na tairsí na dtairseach
dative leis an tairseach
leis an tairsigh (archaic, dialectal)
don tairseach
don tairsigh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na tairseacha

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tairseach
radical lenition eclipsis
tairseach thairseach dtairseach

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairsech ?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 98

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