teaspach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tesbach, from Old Irish tess (“heat”).

Pronunciation

Noun

teaspach m (genitive singular teaspaigh)

  1. heat, warmth, sultriness, hot weather
  2. exuberance, animal spirits, spirit, ardour, wantonness
    Synonyms: anamúlacht, spleodar
  3. fury (especially of warriors in battle)

Declension

Declension of teaspach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative teaspach
vocative a theaspaigh
genitive teaspaigh
dative teaspach
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an teaspach
genitive an teaspaigh
dative leis an teaspach
don teaspach

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of teaspach
radical lenition eclipsis
teaspach theaspach dteaspach

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

References

  1. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 105; reprinted 1988
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75

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