tuirse

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuirse, from Old Irish toirse f (“sorrow, pain; act of sorrowing, complaining; weariness, fatigue”), originally toros.

Pronunciation

Noun

tuirse f (genitive singular tuirse)

  1. tiredness, weariness, fatigue
    Imíonn an tuirse ach fanann an tairbhe. ― The fatigue leaves but the profit remains.
  2. (act of) sorrowing; (weight of) sorrow

Declension

Declension of tuirse (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative tuirse
vocative a thuirse
genitive tuirse
dative tuirse
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an tuirse
genitive na tuirse
dative leis an tuirse
don tuirse

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuirse
radical lenition eclipsis
tuirse thuirse dtuirse

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

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