Teamhair

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Temair.

Proper noun

Teamhair f (genitive Teamhrach)

1. Tara (a hill in County Meath, Ireland)

Declension

Declension of Teamhair

Fifth declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative Teamhair Vocative a Theamhair Genitive Teamhrach Dative Teamhair Teamhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an Teamhair Genitive na Teamhrach Dative leis an Teamhair leis an Teamhraigh (archaic, dialectal) don Teamhair don Teamhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Teamhair	Theamhair	dTeamhair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Teamhair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “temair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language