tarmachan

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic tarmachan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠaɾəmˠəxənˠ/

Noun

tarmachan m (genitive singular tarmachain, nominative plural tarmachain)

  1. ptarmigan

Declension

Declension of tarmachan (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tarmachan tarmachain
vocative a tharmachain a tharmachana
genitive tarmachain tarmachan
dative tarmachan tarmachain
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tarmachan na tarmachain
genitive an tarmachain na dtarmachan
dative leis an tarmachan
don tarmachan 		leis na tarmachain

Mutation

Mutated forms of tarmachan
radical lenition eclipsis
tarmachan tharmachan dtarmachan

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Unknown, but compare tàrmachadh (“originating, producing”), from Old Irish tórmach.[1] MacBain suggests an imitative base tarm (“murmur”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

tarmachan m (genitive singular tarmachain, plural tarmachanan)

  1. ptarmigan

Mutation

Mutation of tarmachan
radical lenition
tarmachan tharmachan

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

References

  1. ^ Skeat, W. W. (1882). An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language: Arranged on an Historical Basis. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, p. 475
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tàrmachan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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