tuairim

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish túaraim, túairim (“likelihood”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠuəɾʲəmʲ/

Noun

tuairim f (genitive singular tuairime, nominative plural tuairimí or tuairimeacha)

  1. opinion
    Synonym: barúil

Declension

Declension of tuairim (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tuairim tuairimí
vocative a thuairim a thuairimí
genitive tuairime tuairimí
dative tuairim tuairimí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tuairim na tuairimí
genitive na tuairime na dtuairimí
dative leis an tuairim
don tuairim 		leis na tuairimí

Derived terms

Preposition

tuairim (plus genitive, triggers no mutation)

  1. about, approximately

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuairim
radical lenition eclipsis
tuairim thuairim dtuairim

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “túaraim, túairim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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