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)
- Turkey (a country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in western Asia)
Declension
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Derived terms
Mutation
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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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
- “Turkey”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Tuirc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm