tairngire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tairngire.

Noun

tairngire f (genitive singular tairngire)

1. Alternative form of tairngreacht

Declension

Declension of tairngire

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative tairngire Vocative a thairngire Genitive tairngire Dative tairngire

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an tairngire Genitive na tairngire Dative leis an tairngire don tairngire

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tairngire	thairngire	dtairngire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• tairngere

Etymology

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ in- +‎ -gaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtarʲŋʲɡʲirʲe]

Noun

tairngire n (genitive tairngiri, nominative plural tairngire)

1. verbal noun of do·airngir: promise
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 109^d5

     Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.

     God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

Declension

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tairngireN	tairngireL	tairngireL
Vocative	tairngireN	tairngireL	tairngireL
Accusative	tairngireN	tairngireL	tairngireL
Genitive	tairngiriL	tairngireL	tairngireN
Dative	tairngiriuL	tairngirib	tairngirib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: tairngire

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tairngire, tarngaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language