tarcaisne

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tarcoisi.[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

tarcaisne f (genitive singular tarcaisne, nominative plural tarcaisní)

  1. contempt, scorn, disparagement
    Synonym: dímheas
  2. insult, affront, indignity, slur, slight, taunt
    Synonyms: masla, achasán
    tabhair tarcaisne do (dhuine) ― to insult (someone)
  3. contumely, abuse
    Synonym: íde béil
    fulaing tarcaisne ― to endure an insult, eat dirt
    rabharta tarcaisne ― a torrent of abuse

Declension

Declension of tarcaisne (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tarcaisne tarcaisní
vocative a tharcaisne a tharcaisní
genitive tarcaisne tarcaisní
dative tarcaisne tarcaisní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tarcaisne na tarcaisní
genitive na tarcaisne na dtarcaisní
dative leis an tarcaisne
don tarcaisne 		leis na tarcaisní

Derived terms

  • cuir an tarcaisne i gceann na héagóra (“to add insult to injury”)
  • méadaíonn an taithí an tarcaisne (“familiarity breeds contempt”)
  • tarcaisneach
  • tarcaisneoir
  • tarcaisnigh
  • tarcaisníl
  • tarcaisniú
  • tarcaisniúil

Mutation

Mutated forms of tarcaisne
radical lenition eclipsis
tarcaisne tharcaisne dtarcaisne

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) “tarcuisne”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 720
  2. ^ “tarcaisne”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarcasal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarcaisne, tarcaise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92

Further reading

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