tiontú

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tintugad,[2] intúd[3] and Old Irish tintúd,[4] verbal noun of do·intaí (“to return, translate”). By surface analysis, tiontaigh +‎ -ú.

Pronunciation

Noun

tiontú m (genitive singular tiontaithe, nominative plural tiontuithe)

  1. verbal noun of tiontaigh
  2. turn (change of direction or orientation)
  3. conversion (act of converting; also religious)
  4. translation

Declension

Declension of tiontú (irregular)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tiontú tiontuithe
vocative a thiontú a thiontuithe
genitive tiontaithe tiontuithe
dative tiontú tiontuithe
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tiontú na tiontuithe
genitive an tiontaithe na dtiontuithe
dative leis an tiontú
don tiontú 		leis na tiontuithe

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Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiontú
radical lenition eclipsis
tiontú thiontú dtiontú

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

References

  1. ^ “tiontú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tintugad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “intód, intúd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language,
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tintúd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 388, page 129

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