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Irish
Etymology
From toil (“will”) + -teanas.
Pronunciation
Noun
toilteanas m (genitive singular toilteanais)
- willingness
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “toilteanas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 741
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “toilteanas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “toilteanas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 83