tolg

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tolg (“sleeping-compartment, bed”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tolg m (genitive singular toilg, nominative plural toilg)

  1. couch

Declension

Declension of tolg

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tolg toilg
Vocative a thoilg a tholga
Genitive toilg tolg
Dative tolg toilg

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tolg na toilg
Genitive an toilg na dtolg
Dative leis an tolg

don tolg

leis na toilg

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tolg tholg dtolg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

tolg m or f

  1. strength, force
  2. attack
  3. breach caused by attack
  4. gap, tear, fault
  5. calamity
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish tolg.

Noun

tolg m or f

  1. cubicle, compartment around a bed
  2. (by extension) sleeping-place, bed
Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Irish: tolg

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tolg tholg tolg
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

tolg m or f

  1. cubicle, compartment around a bed
  2. (by extension) sleeping-place, bed

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tolg tolgL tuilgL
Vocative tuilg tolgL tulguH
Accusative tolgN tolgL tulguH
Genitive tuilgL tolg tolgN
Dative tulgL tolgaib tolgaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tolg tholg tolg
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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