tairngire

• targaire, tarngaire^[1]

The feminine noun is from Old Irish tairngire (“a promise, prophecy”).^[2] The masculine noun replaces Classical Gaelic tairngeartaidh (“prophet”).^[3]

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠaɾˠɡəɾʲə/^[4] (corresponding to the form targaire)

tairngire f (genitive singular tairngire)

1. alternative form of tairngreacht

tairngire m (genitive singular tairngire, nominative plural tairngirí)

1. prophet

• fáidh

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “targaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1178; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tairngire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• tairngere

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ in- +‎ -gaire.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtarʲŋʲɡʲirʲe]

tairngire n (genitive tairngiri, nominative plural tairngire)

1. verbal noun of do·airngir: promise
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 109^d5

     Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.

     God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

• Irish: tairngire

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairngire, tarngaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language