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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)
- 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
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
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tuirseach
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thuirseach
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dtuirseach
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toirsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40
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