táilliúir

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish táilliúr (compare Scottish Gaelic tàillear, Manx thalhear), from Anglo-Norman taillour (compare English tailor), from taillier (to cut; to shape), from Late Latin taliō.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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táilliúir m (genitive singular táilliúra, nominative plural táilliúirí)

  1. tailor (person who makes, repairs, and alters clothes)
    Coordinate term: bantáilliúir
  2. tailor, bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Noun

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táilliúir

  1. inflection of táilliúr:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
táilliúir tháilliúir dtáilliúir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “táilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 78
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20

Further reading

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