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tairne
From Middle Irish tairnge,[2] from Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (“nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, rub”).
tairne m (genitive singular tairne, nominative plural tairní)
- nail (a spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials)
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “tairnge”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 710
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairnge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 257, page 92
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tairne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “tairne”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tairne”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
