togairm

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ gairm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.ɣərʲmʲ/

Noun

togairm n (nominative plural togarmand)

1. verbal noun of do·gair: calling
   • 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. 102^d17

     Amal ru·soírtha-som hi Sleib Sina tri togairm n-anmae Dæ ⁊ árim a degmaine nó amal ro·[so]írtha i n-Egipt, síc ro·soírtha in Machabdi húa Día dinaib imnedaib hi·robatar.

     As they were saved on Mount Sinai through calling on the name of God and enumerating His benefits, or as they were delivered in Egypt; so the Macabees were delivered by God from the troubles that they were in.

Inflection

Neuter n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	togairmN	togairmN	togarmanL
Vocative	togairmN	togairmN	togarmanL
Accusative	togairmN	togairmN	togarmanL
Genitive	togarmae	togarmanN	togarmanN
Dative	togarmaimL	togarmanaib	togarmanaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: toghairm
• Scottish Gaelic: taghairm
  • → English: taghairm
  • → Scots: taghairm

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
togairm	thogairm	togairm 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), “togairm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language