tláith

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish tláith[2] (whence Scottish Gaelic tlàth), from Proto-Celtic *tlātis (compare Welsh tlawd (“poor, sick”)), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to support”)[3]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tláith (genitive singular feminine tláithe, plural tláithe, comparative tláithe)

  1. weak (lacking in force or ability)
    Synonyms: lag, fann
  2. soft, gentle
    Synonyms: bog, lag, séimh

Declension

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Declension of tláith
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tláith thláith tláithe;
thláithe²
Vocative thláith tláithe
Genitive tláithe tláithe tláith
Dative tláith;
thláith¹ 		thláith tláithe;
thláithe²
Comparative níos tláithe
Superlative is tláithe

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tláith thláith dtláith
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “tláith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tláith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tlāti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 380
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 24, page 14

Further reading

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