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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From tais + -leach.
Pronunciation
Noun
taisleach m (genitive singular taisligh)
- moisture, damp
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| taisleach
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thaisleach
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dtaisleach
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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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Further reading
- “taisleach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “taislech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “taisleach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 712
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “taisleach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 32