tairne

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish tairnge,[2] from Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (nail), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (to drill, rub).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tairne m (genitive singular tairne, nominative plural tairní)

  1. nail (spike-shaped metal fastener)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tairne thairne dtairne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tairnge”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 710
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairnge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92

Further reading

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