Tuirc

See also: tuirc

Irish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (Turk), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos).

Proper noun

An Tuirc f (genitive na Tuirce)

  1. Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia)

Declension

Declension of Tuirc (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative Tuirc
vocative a Thuirc
genitive Tuirce
dative Tuirc
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an Tuirc
genitive na Tuirce
dative leis an Tuirc
don Tuirc

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Tuirc
radical lenition eclipsis
Tuirc Thuirc dTuirc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading