taibhse

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish taidbsiu,[2] verbal noun of do·adbat.

Pronunciation

Noun

taibhse f (genitive singular taibhse, nominative plural taibhsí)

  1. ghost
  2. appearance

Declension

Declension of taibhse (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative taibhse taibhsí
vocative a thaibhse a thaibhsí
genitive taibhse taibhsí
dative taibhse taibhsí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an taibhse na taibhsí
genitive na taibhse na dtaibhsí
dative leis an taibhse
don taibhse 		leis na taibhsí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of taibhse
radical lenition eclipsis
taibhse thaibhse dtaibhse

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

References

  1. ^ “taibhse”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “taidbsiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 324, page 113

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish taidbsiu, verbal noun of do·adbat.

Noun

taibhse m or f (genitive singular taibhse, plural taibhsean or taibhsichean)

  1. apparition, spirit, spectre, phantom, ghost
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Norn tåisti.

Noun

taibhse f (genitive singular taibhse, plural taibhsean)

  1. common murre

Mutation

Mutation of taibhse
radical lenition
taibhse thaibhse

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

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  4. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
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