Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tairsech (“threshold”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
tairseach f (genitive singular tairsí, nominative plural tairseacha)
- threshold (myriad senses); sill
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Declension
Declension of tairseach (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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tairseach
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tairseacha
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| vocative
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a thairseach
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a thairseacha
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| genitive
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tairsí
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tairseach
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| dative
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tairseach
tairsigh (archaic, dialectal)
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tairseacha
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an tairseach
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na tairseacha
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| genitive
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na tairsí
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na dtairseach
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| dative
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leis an tairseach
leis an tairsigh (archaic, dialectal)
don tairseach
don tairsigh (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na tairseacha
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of tairseach
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| tairseach
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thairseach
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dtairseach
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairsech ?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 98
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