tnáith

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Originally an alternative form of tráigh (to ebb) with semantic differentiation, as Old Irish tráigid also meant to exhaust.

Pronunciation

Verb

tnáith (present analytic tnáitheann, future analytic tnáithfidh, verbal noun tnáitheadh, past participle tnáite)

  1. (transitive) to fatigue, exhaust
    Synonyms: tuirsigh, sáraigh, traoch

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of tnáith
radical lenition eclipsis
tnáith thnáith dtnáith

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

References

  1. ^ tnáith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 215, page 111

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