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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish tarcoisi.
Pronunciation
Noun
tarcaisne f (genitive singular tarcaisne, nominative plural tarcaisní)
- contempt, scorn, disparagement
- Synonym: dímheas
- insult, affront, indignity, slur, slight, taunt
- Synonyms: masla, achasán
- tabhair tarcaisne do (dhuine) ― to insult (someone)
- contumely, abuse
- Synonym: íde béil
- fulaing tarcaisne ― to endure an insult, eat dirt
- rabharta tarcaisne ― a torrent of abuse
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tarcaisne
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tharcaisne
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dtarcaisne
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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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References
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tarcuisne”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 720
- ^ “tarcaisne”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tarcasal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tarcaisne, tarcaise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92
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