tuirseach

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish toirsech (“mournful, sorrowful”), from Old Irish toirsech.[1] By surface analysis, tuirse +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tùirseach (“mournful, sorrowful”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

tuirseach (genitive singular masculine tuirsigh, genitive singular feminine tuirsí, plural tuirseacha, comparative tuirsí)

  1. tired
    Tá mé tuirseach den chaint.
    I’m tired of the talk
    • “An Mhaighean Mhara” (traditional Irish folksong):
      Tá mise tuirseach agus beidh go lá
      Mo Mháire bhroinngheal ’s mo Phádraig bán
      Ar bharr na dtonna ’s fá bhéal na trá
      Siúd chugaibh Mary Chinidh ’s í ’ndiaidh an Éirne ’shnámh
      I’m tired and will be until day
      My fair-breasted Máire and my blond Pádraig
      On top of the waves and under the beach
      There for you Mary Chinidh having swum in the Erne

Declension

Declension of tuirseach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative tuirseach thuirseach tuirseacha;
thuirseacha2
vocative thuirsigh tuirseacha
genitive tuirsí tuirseacha tuirseach
dative tuirseach;
thuirseach1 		thuirseach;
thuirsigh (archaic) 		tuirseacha;
thuirseacha2
Comparative níos tuirsí
Superlative is tuirsí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuirseach
radical lenition eclipsis
tuirseach thuirseach dtuirseach

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), “toirsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40

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