tonnaosta
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective[edit]
tonnaosta
- getting on in years
Related terms[edit]
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- aosta (“aged, old”, adjective)
- breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
- bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
- cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tonnaosta | thonnaosta | dtonnaosta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tonnaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN