turscar

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish turscar,[2] a derivative of do·scara (to knock down, drop) (see treascair).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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turscar m (genitive singular turscair)

  1. seawrack (masses of seaweed on the shore)
  2. detritus, refuse (items or material that have been discarded)
  3. (computing) spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages)
  4. (literary) trappings, belongings

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
turscar thurscar dturscar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ turscar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “turscur, tascar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 268, page 95

Further reading

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