tláith

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tláith[2] (whence Scottish Gaelic tlàth), from Proto-Celtic *tlātis (compare Welsh tlawd (“poor, sick”)), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to support”)[3]

Pronunciation

Adjective

tláith (genitive singular feminine tláithe, plural tláithe, comparative tláithe)

  1. weak (lacking in force or ability)
    Synonyms: lag, fann
  2. soft, gentle
    Synonyms: bog, lag, séimh

Declension

Declension of tláith
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative tláith thláith tláithe;
thláithe2
vocative thláith tláithe
genitive tláithe tláithe tláith
dative tláith;
thláith1 		thláith tláithe;
thláithe2
Comparative níos tláithe
Superlative is tláithe

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tláith
radical lenition eclipsis
tláith thláith dtláith

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

References

  1. ^ “tláith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tláith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tlāti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 380
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 24, page 14

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