tuismitheoir

Irish

Etymology

From tuismigh (“beget, procreate; bring forth; create, produce; bring about, engender; originate”, verb) +‎ -óir (agent suffix).

Noun

tuismitheoir m (genitive singular tuismitheora, nominative plural tuismitheoirí)

1. parent

Declension

Declension of tuismitheoir

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative tuismitheoir tuismitheoirí Vocative a thuismitheoir a thuismitheoirí Genitive tuismitheora tuismitheoirí Dative tuismitheoir tuismitheoirí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an tuismitheoir na tuismitheoirí Genitive an tuismitheora na dtuismitheoirí Dative leis an tuismitheoir don tuismitheoir leis na tuismitheoirí

Synonyms

• tuiste

Hyponyms

• athair (“father”)
• máthair (“mother”)

Related terms

• tuismíocht f (“parentage; origin, source”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tuismitheoir	thuismitheoir	dtuismitheoir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuismitheoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN