tosaigh

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish tosaigid (begins, verb), from tosach (beginning).[2]

Alternative forms

Verb

tosaigh (present analytic tosaíonn, future analytic tosóidh, verbal noun tosú, past participle tosaithe) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. begin, commence
  2. start, initiate
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

tosaigh m

  1. inflection of tosach:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of tosaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
tosaigh thosaigh dtosaigh

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tosaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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