tírim

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See also: tirim

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tīresmis, related to *tīros (“land”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

tírim

  1. dry, parched

Inflection

i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative tírim tírim tírim
Vocative tírim
Accusative tírim tírim
Genitive tírim tírmae tírim
Dative tírim tírim tírim
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative tírmai tírmai
Vocative tírmai
Accusative tírmai
Genitive tírim*
tírmae
Dative tírmaib
Notes *not when substantivized

Quotations

  • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 15b15
    .i. hó tírmai .i. cona·bí tírim
    i.e. from drought, i.e. so that it is not parched.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: tírim

Mutation

Mutation of tírim
radical lenition nasalization
tírim thírim tírim
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tīros-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 379-380

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