toirsech

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From toirse +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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toirsech

  1. mournful, sorrowful
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29d19
      Ná ba thoirsech cía béo-sa hi carcair.
      Do not be mournful even though I am in prison.

Declension

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o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative toirsech toirsech toirsech
Vocative toirsig*
toirsech**
Accusative toirsech toirsig
Genitive toirsig toirsige toirsig
Dative toirsech toirsig toirsech
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative toirsig toirsecha
Vocative toirsechu
toirsecha
Accusative toirsechu
toirsecha
Genitive toirsech
Dative toirsechaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants

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  • Irish: tuirseach (tired, weary)
  • Scottish Gaelic: tùirseach

Mutation

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

Further reading

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