tírim

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tírim

  1. dry
    • 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. ho tírmai .i. conabí tírim
      i.e. from drought, i.e. so that it is not parched.

Inflection

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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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: tírim

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tírim thírim tírim
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Further reading

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