tirim
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tirim (plural tirime or tiorma, comparative tirime or tiorma)
Declension
[edit]Regular declension:
Declension of tirim
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tirim | thirim | tirime; thirime² | |
| Vocative | thirim | tirime | ||
| Genitive | tirime | tirime | tirim | |
| Dative | tirim; thirim¹ |
thirim | tirime; thirime² | |
| Comparative | níos tirime | |||
| Superlative | is tirime | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Irregular declension:
Declension of tirim
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tirim | thirim | tiorma; thiorma² | |
| Vocative | thirim | tiorma | ||
| Genitive | tirime | tiorma | tirim | |
| Dative | tirim; thirim¹ |
thirim | tiorma; thiorma² | |
| Comparative | níos tiorma | |||
| Superlative | is tiorma | |||
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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tirim | thirim | dtirim |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tirim”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tírim, tirim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tirim”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tirim”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024