tánaiste

See also: Tánaiste

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tánaise, tánaiste.

Noun

tánaiste m (genitive singular tánaiste, nominative plural tánaistí)

1. (historical, monarchy) tanist, heir presumptive
2. (politics) deputy prime minister
3. second-in-command, second in rank or dignity; next in order
4. third finger

Declension

Declension of tánaiste

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tánaiste tánaistí Vocative a thánaiste a thánaistí Genitive tánaiste tánaistí Dative tánaiste tánaistí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tánaiste na tánaistí Genitive an tánaiste na dtánaistí Dative leis an tánaiste don tánaiste leis na tánaistí

Alternative forms

• ánaiste (archaic)

Derived terms

• i dtánaiste (“next to, almost”)

Adjective

tánaiste

1. (genitive as attributive adjective) the second, another

Mutation

Irish mutation
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