túare

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• tóare (túarae)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuːa̯rɘ]

Noun

túare f (genitive túare, nominative plural túari)

1. food
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6^b23

     .i. bésu dag-duine cini estar cach túari.

     He may be a good man, though he eat not every food.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^c21

     Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.

     It would be a fruit of labor for us in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 63, pages 115-179:

     Is ferr lais & is inildiu do anmin neich ind fit bec mín quam ind fit mór de tuari anmín, fo bithin is ferr do fulang duine & da blath a mbecc mín & is lugai do·dúsci ind daonacht fri mi-accobar quam a mmór den gan-tuarai.

     He holds that it is better and safer for one's soul [to have] a small light pittance rather than a large pittance of coarse food, since the small light diet is better to sustain a man and make him healthy, and it excites human nature to ill desires less than the large [diet] of coarse food.

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	túareL	túariL	túari
Vocative	túareL	túariL	túari
Accusative	túariN	túariL	túari
Genitive	túare	túareL	túareN
Dative	túariL	túarib	túarib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
túare	thúare	túare pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “túar(a)e”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language