tairngeartach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish tairngertach (“one foretold or prophesied”), from do·airngir (“promises; foretells, prophesies”, verb).
Noun
[edit]tairngeartach m (genitive singular tairngeartaigh, nominative plural tairngeartaigh)
- prophesied one, deliverer
Declension
[edit]Declension of tairngeartach
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Adjective
[edit]tairngeartach (genitive singular masculine tairngeartaigh, genitive singular feminine tairngeartaí, plural tairngeartacha, not comparable)
- prophetic
- Synonyms: fáidhiúil, fáistineach
Declension
[edit]Declension of tairngeartach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tairngeartach | thairngeartach | tairngeartacha; thairngeartacha² | |
| Vocative | thairngeartaigh | tairngeartacha | ||
| Genitive | tairngeartaí | tairngeartacha | tairngeartach | |
| Dative | tairngeartach; thairngeartach¹ |
thairngeartach; thairngeartaigh (archaic) |
tairngeartacha; thairngeartacha² | |
| Comparative | níos tairngeartaí | |||
| Superlative | is tairngeartaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tairngeartach | thairngeartach | dtairngeartach |
| 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) “tairngeartach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “prophetic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairngertach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tairngeartach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm