tairseach
Irish
Alternative forms
- tairsing f
Etymology
From Old Irish tairsech (“threshold of a door; entrance, edge, boundary of cities, countries, etc.”).
Noun
tairseach f (genitive singular tairsí, nominative plural tairseacha)
Declension
Declension of tairseach
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- tairseach fuinneoige (“windowsill”)
- tairseachúil (“liminal”, adjective)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tairseach | thairseach | dtairseach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tairseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairsech ?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language