tír
Irish
Etymology
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From Old Irish tír, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. ‘dry land’ as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.
Pronunciation
Noun
tír f or m (genitive singular tíre, nominative plural tíortha)
Declension
Declension of tír
- Alternative plural: tíreacha (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
- alltathír f (“wild, rough, country”)
- tír chluiche f (“sporting country; hunting-ground”)
- Tír Eoghain (“Tyrone”)
- tír mór m (“mainland”)
- Tír na nÓg
- tírdhreach (“landscape”)
- tíre (“country, native, ordinary”, adjective)
- tírghrá (“patriotism”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tír | thír | dtír |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tír”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tír”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tír”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish
Etymology
2=tersPlease see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.
From Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. ‘dry land’ as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.
Pronunciation
Noun
tír n (genitive tíre, nominative plural tíre)
Declension
Neuter s-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
Vocative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
Accusative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
Genitive | tíreL | tíre | tíreN |
Dative | tírL | tírib | tírib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
tír | thír | tír pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Irish lemmas
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