tairnge

Middle Irish

Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (“nail”).

Noun

tairnge m

1. nail, spike, peg

Descendants

• Irish: tairne
• Scottish Gaelic: tàirnge, tàirng, tarrang, tarrag

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tairnge	thairnge	tairnge 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), “tairnge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language