tairmthechtas

Old Irish

Etymology

From tairmthecht +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtarʲmʲθʲextas]

Noun

tairmthechtas m (genitive tairmthecthais)

1. transition
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 220^a10

     A·tá tairmthechtas persan híc .i. is sain indí asid·rubart ⁊ indí frisa n-érbrath.

     There is a transition of persons here, i.e. the person who has said it and the person to whom it has been said are different.

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tairmthechtas	—	—
Vocative	tairmthechtais	—	—
Accusative	tairmthechtasN	—	—
Genitive	tairmthechtaisL	—	—
Dative	tairmthechtusL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tairmthechtas	thairmthechtas	tairmthechtas 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), “tairmthechtas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language