tánaiste
See also: Tánaiste
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tánaise, tánaiste.
Noun
tánaiste m (genitive singular tánaiste, nominative plural tánaistí)
- (historical, monarchy) tanist, heir presumptive
- (politics) deputy prime minister
- second-in-command, second in rank or dignity; next in order
- third finger
Declension
Declension of tánaiste
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Alternative forms
Derived terms
- i dtánaiste (“next to, almost”)
Adjective
tánaiste
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tánaiste | thánaiste | dtánaiste |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tánaiste”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tánaise, tánaiste”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language