tairseach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tairsech (“threshold of a door; entrance, edge, boundary of cities, countries, etc.”).

Noun

tairseach f (genitive tairsí, nominative plural tairseacha)

1. threshold (myriad senses); sill

Declension

Declension of tairseach

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tairseach tairseacha Vocative a thairseach a thairseacha Genitive tairsí tairseach Dative tairseach tairseacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tairseach na tairseacha Genitive na tairsí na dtairseach Dative leis an tairseach don tairseach leis na tairseacha

Derived terms

• tairseachúil (“liminal”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tairseach	thairseach	dtairseach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.