tairne

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tairnge,[2] from Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (“nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, rub”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tairne m (genitive singular tairne, nominative plural tairní)

  1. nail (spike-shaped metal fastener)

Declension

Declension of tairne (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tairne tairní
vocative a thairne a thairní
genitive tairne tairní
dative tairne tairní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tairne na tairní
genitive an tairne na dtairní
dative leis an tairne
don tairne 		leis na tairní

Derived terms

  • scriú-thairne
  • tairne aisil
  • tairne barrtha
  • tairne ceárta
  • tairne comhla
  • tairne crúcach
  • tairne leacaithe
  • tairne murláin
  • tairne ramhar
  • tairne seaca
  • tairne spíce
  • tairneáil
  • tairneoir

Mutation

Mutated forms of tairne
radical lenition eclipsis
tairne thairne dtairne

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tairnge”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 710
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairnge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92

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