tùirse

See also: tuirse

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuirse, from Old Irish toirse f (“sorrow, pain; act of sorrowing, complaining; weariness, fatigue”), originally toros.

Noun

tùirse f

1. affliction, dejection, grief, melancholy, mourning, sadness, sorrow

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “tùirse”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toirse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language