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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish toirrches.
Pronunciation
Noun
toircheas m (genitive singular toirchis, nominative plural toirchis)
- pregnancy
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| toircheas
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thoircheas
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dtoircheas
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Further reading
- “toircheas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toirrches”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “toirċeas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 741
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “toircheas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN